A German rail dispatcher who admitted that his negligence caused a train crash that killed 12 people has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
A German rail dispatcher admitted at the start of his trial Thursday that his negligence caused a train crash that killed 12 people as he was playing a mobile phone game while on duty.
German prosecutors said on Monday they had brought charges against a rail dispatcher accused of causing a train crash in February that killed 12 while playing a mobile phone game on duty.
The death toll from a German train crash rose to 12 on Wednesday, a day after a rail dispatcher was arrested, accused of having been distracted by a mobile phone game shortly before the accident.
Two mistakes by an official in a control centre were the root cause of a deadly train crash in Bavaria in February that left 11 people dead and dozens seriously injured, an investigation has found.
The rail controller in Bad Aibling in southern Bavaria, where two trains collided on Tuesday, twice tried to stop the accident that killed eleven people.
Police said on Wednesday morning that they were not expecting to find any further victims of Tuesday's train crash southeast of Munich, denying reports of an eleventh body found.
Over 96 percent of Germany's rail network is fitted with the PZB system, which is supposed to prevent collisions – so how did Tuesday morning's full-frontal crash happen?
