Trains collide in Kampot province

[geovalin]

A passenger train rear-ended a cargo train in Kampot province yesterday, according to local police. No one was injured in the crash.

 

Chief of staff of the district police Chhun Chhoeun said that the trains were going in the same direction when the accident occurred. “These two trains were going from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville when the passenger train rear-ended the other,” he said.

 

Hong Sarann, Boeung Touk commune police chief, said that the accident was caused by the fact that the first train used its brakes abruptly and the second one could not control its speed.

 

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[Cats4ever]

If the passenger train was going faster than the goods train, must have been, I know, then from experience it would have been a very slow motion impact.

[whaleboneman]

When one train rear-ends another, it's called poor dispatching - nothing to do with brakes.