Hannover: BPOL-H: Operating a freight train with a blood alcohol level of 1.41; emergency braking prevents further travel

BPOL-H: Operating a freight train with a blood alcohol level of 1.41; emergency braking prevents further travel

Last Saturday, at 3:45 in the morning, the Federal Police Inspection in Hanover received a message from the emergency control center of the German Railways that contact with the locomotive driver of a freight train heading towards Hamburg had been lost and that it was standing at Rethen station. Furthermore, the locomotive driver of an ICE train, which was passing through the area, had been instructed to stop there and investigate the reason.

The locomotive driver of the ICE confirmed that the freight train was standing at Rethen station and that the locomotive driver of the freight train was lying unconscious on the floor of the driver's cab.

For this reason, a patrol and an ambulance were dispatched to Rethen station. On site, the officers were surprised to find that the locomotive driver of the freight train was heavily intoxicated. They questioned the locomotive driver of the ICE as a witness. He stated that he had seen the man lying on the floor through the window. Only