Trains collide en route to capital

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Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Erin Handley

 

Three people suffered slight injuries after a passenger train crashed into a stationary freight train carrying petroleum in Preah Sihanouk on Saturday, in what police attributed to a brake failure - a claim flatly denied by the Royal Railways company.

 

The accident comes just a week after King Norodom Sihamoni and the Queen Mother travelled by train to Sihanoukville for New Year’s Day, and in the wake of a freight train derailment in Kandal in late November.

 

Uong Vuthy, Veal Renh commune police chief, said the train transporting oil had pulled over at a sub-station in Veal Renh commune, Prey Nub district, to let a Sihanoukville-bound train pass through, when another passenger train bound for Phnom Penh rear-ended it.

 

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[Redline]

Why are there so many train accidents worldwide?  It seems a basic form of transportation, and there seems to be high technology that could easily prevent them

[HarrySeaman]

Seems like three trains didn't fit on one track.

 

Basic math failure!

[milesinnz]

I didn't know there were enough trains in Cambodia to have a crash...