Enzisweiler - At least 82 people were injured, nine of them seriously, when two passenger trains packed with students and commuters collided head-on during rush hour early yesterday in southern Germany, police said.
Twenty-four people suffered lesser injuries and nearly 50 slight injuries.
The accident happened at about 7.30 a.m. (6.30 a.m. Irish time) on a single-track line between Wasserburg and Lindau on the shore of Lake Constance, close to the border with Austria.
A German railways spokesman said first reports indicated that human error was to blame for the accident.
The train travelling from Lindau should have waited for the second train, travelling in the opposite direction, from Friedrichshafen, to arrive before pulling out of the Enzisweiler station, the spokesman said.