Again and again people take a shortcut over the railway tracks and, in case of doubt, pay for this carelessness with their lives.
Such behavior is also in question for the accident with two dead at the Frankfurt Waldstadion.
Two visitors from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were hit by a train and fatally injured after the Böhse-Onkelz concert late on Friday evening.
Like some other visitors to the concert, the man and the woman may have wanted to shorten the route to their vehicle or their tent instead of going through the underpass.
Meanwhile, the police from Marburg and Bad Hersfeld are reporting similar cases.
In the east Hessian city, only a quick-reacting train driver averted a disaster risked by a man from northern Germany.
Thorsten Winter
Business editor and internet coordinator in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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Accordingly, railway police officers had to move out on Saturday afternoon with blue lights and sirens after an emergency call had been received.
A man with a child on the tracks at the Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe train station, that is what the Kassel police reported on Monday.
The search for the two people was unsuccessful, as it is said.
Nevertheless, the trains could neither head for nor leave the station for about 40 minutes.
Crossing the tracks with alcohol in your blood
Shortly before midnight on Friday, a 50-year-old man from Pinneberg made a daring run across two tracks in Bad Hersfeld.
His destination was a train that was already ready to depart and that he still wanted to catch.
However, he overlooked an approaching freight train.
The train driver was only able to avoid running over the North German by immediately initiating emergency braking.
The emergency braking broke some wheels on the train.
So he had to be taken out of circulation.
The careless North German had 1.8 per mille in his blood, as the police later found out.
He is now facing criminal proceedings for dangerous intervention in rail traffic.
The federal police have counted 40 such accidents in Hesse since 2019, which were due to carelessness.
For 2016 alone, the State Statistical Office recorded 39 accidents with fatalities at train stations and crossings that the Federal Police did not register.