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Intoxicated 19-Year-Old Crosses Munich Central Station Tracks, Triggers Emergency Stops

Emergency protocols prevented injuries, limiting service disruption.

Overview

  • Shortly after midnight before Christmas Eve, the man walked from platform 25 across the tracks to the platform 5 area at Munich Hauptbahnhof.
  • A train driver alerted a nearby federal police patrol and the dispatcher issued an emergency-stop order for all trains in the station area.
  • Two incoming regional trains, identified as 4871 and 9464, conducted emergency braking to avoid danger.
  • Authorities reported no passenger injuries, and eleven additional services faced brief delays of about six minutes.
  • Police recorded a breath-alcohol reading of 2.1 per mille and opened a probe for dangerous interference with rail traffic; the man is a Ukrainian national who entered Germany on December 11 and has no prior police record.