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Stonehaven: a dead man after ScotRail derailed in Aberdeenshire
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Emergencies face an “extremely difficult” fight amid localized flooding to access the site where a passenger exercise derailed in Aberdeenshire, according to a local resident.
Police, firefighters and ambulances were called to the scene just west of Stonehaven around 9.45 a.m. today when an Inter7City six-car passenger exercise from Aberdeen hit through a landslide.
At least one user died in the twist of fate and there are fears of additional deaths.
It is understood that the exercise was reversed when derailed after finding a previous landslide that blocked its way forward.
Dozens of emergency cars are at the scene and police have established a perimeter about a mile wide around the crash site.
But the railway, which runs through one of the rugged flanks of the valley through thick wooded rule with a river below, is not easy for them to access on foot.
Instead, you may notice a rescue helicopter flying just above the tree line near the location of derailed cars, reducing the stretchers to the rescuers below.
Shortly after the incident, I spoke to a local suspect, who did not need to be identified, who had spent his time on the roadside by helping rescuers locate the destination.
“It’s incredibly complicated access,” he said, “flooding has made it very difficult to get there.”
He instructed the other in the valley, where many jet cars had gathered.
This meant that chimney trucks and ambulances were forced to travel small rural roads, taking the long road around the valley to the twisted place of fate towards the treacherous river.
Despite the sun, it’s not to realize how padded the ground is after major thunderstorms at night.
While it may be too early to say with certainty that heavy rains contributed to the accident, it has certainly influenced the recovery operation.
I suspect this has already made the terrain ten times more complicated for rescuers, who now have to make arduous comings and goings through soggy fields, making the effort to get to the site nothing less than herculean.
The emergency is ongoing.
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