In Australia, a passenger train crashed into the fence at the station

As reported by the local newspaper Sydney Morning Herald, the train, approaching the platform of the station "Richmond" did not have time to brake and crashed into the buffer stop at the end of the platform.

Passengers suffered serious injuries as a result of the accident. On the scene came 17 ambulance brigades, firefighters and three helicopters.

At the moment, the causes of the accident are not reported. In turn, the representative of the Sydney railway system Howard Collins called the incident "extraordinary".

As previously reported in "URA-Inform", in the south-east of France on Thursday, December 14, the school bus collided with a train. As a result of the accident four people died. Among the dead, two children.