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February 6, 2000 – Brühl, Germany: An express night train from Amsterdam to Basel passes a construction area at excess speed and derails at Brühl station on the main line between Cologne and Bonn, crashing into a nearby house. Nine people die.

September 9, 2002 – Bad Münder, Germany: Two freight trains collide head-on after a brake failure on one of the trains. A tank car loaded with 1-Chlor-2,3-epoxypropan explodes, contaminating the station and exposing 96 firemen to carcinogenic fumes.

June 11, 2003 – 6 people die and 25 are injured when two passenger trains collide head-on near Schrozberg, Germany.

September 22, 2006 – Lathen, Emsland, Germany: 21 passengers and two maintenance workers die and many more are injured when a German Transrapid train collides with a maintenance of way vehicle on the system's test track near the Netherlands border. See 2006 Lathen maglev train accident.

April 26, 2008 – An InterCityExpress train runs into a herd of sheep that had wandered onto the tracks at the mouth of the Landrückentunnel, Germany's longest rail tunnel, on the Hanover-Würzburg high-speed rail line near Fulda. The train stops 1,300 metres (4,300 ft) into the tunnel, 19 of the train's 135 passengers are injured slightly, four suffer fractures.

August 17, 2010 - The Intercity-Express from Frankfurt to Paris hits a truck that had slid onto the rail near Lambrecht. The first two carriages derail and ten people are injured, one seriously.

January 29, 2011 – 2011 Saxony-Anhalt train accident - a freight train and a passenger train collide near Hordorf in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany on the Magdeburg–Thale line. The passenger train derails. Ten people die and 23 people are injured.