Overview
- The head-on crash between Hillerød and Kagerup on Thursday morning left 17 injured, including five in critical condition, from 38 people aboard.
- Emergency crews, alerted at 6:30 a.m. local time, deployed seven ambulances, several medical units and a Danish Armed Forces helicopter to move the wounded.
- Patients were distributed to hospitals across the Copenhagen region after police evacuated both trains and secured the scene.
- Rail service on the local line is suspended indefinitely as officers maintain a cordon and restrict access to the crash site.
- Investigators have not identified a cause and are reviewing signaling, equipment and human error in a country where serious rail crashes are rare, with deadly incidents in 2019 and 2025.