LATHEN - Twenty-three people were killed and 10 injured when a high-tech elevated train collided with a service vehicle in northwestern Germany on Friday, a police officer said.
Officials said the Transrapid magnetic levitation train had been travelling at 170 kilometres (106 miles) per hour when it hit the vehicle on the concrete test track which is elevated above the ground on concrete supports.
The prosecutor`s office in the city of Osnabrueck said that the collision had been caused by human error.
It is possible that a radio communication problem was to blame for the collision, the prosecutor`s office said.
09/22/2006 18:25 GMT