Well, does it really happen &quot;fairly often&quot;? Looking at the German train accidents in recent years, a lot of them don&#x27;t have (human) casualties, so an event like this still seems pretty rare, considering the high amount of daily traffic. And because of that, this gets widely reported.<p>This is literally my neck of the woods. I just commuted to work on a parallel route. And I actually read this here first. If the same amount of people died on the nearby Autobahn, this wouldn&#x27;t be international news.<p>But yeah, I&#x27;m very interested in hearing why this could happen at all. I just don&#x27;t think its endemic, and I don&#x27;t generally have a high opinion of the current state of the German railroad system (privatization was a bad idea).