A passenger train slammed into a construction crane and derailed near The Hague in the early hours of Tuesday morning sending two carriages into a field next to the tracks.
VOORSCHOTEN, Netherlands --
Police opened an investigation to establish if any crime was committed. Another independent probe was opened into the cause of the crash. Two of the bright yellow and blue train carriages came to rest perpendicular to the tracks across the small canal and partially in a field. What appeared to be the front of the train was badly damaged. Other parts of the train were partially derailed.
Railway company NS also said in a statement that a passenger train, a freight train and a construction crane were involved in a collision, but the company gave no further details.
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