Pendolino Crash at Bohumin (Czechia)

[LNW-GW Joint]

There are reports of a serious crash of a ČD Pendolino near Bohumin in Moravia.
The Pendolino appears to have struck a locomotive soon after departure from Bohumin to Prague.
Pictures show a virtually destroyed front end to the Pendolino.
Sadly the driver was killed and there are several injuries.
The reporting calls the train a high-speed bullet train, but of course it is limited to 160km/h on the routes it operates.
Bohumin is a major railway operating node, and is where locomotive changes on cross-border trains to/from Poland occur.

MSN

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A high-speed train has collided with an engine in a station in the north-eastern Czech Republic, killing one person and injuring five.

 

[MarcVD]

Seen some pictures of the aftermath, the difference in damage occurred by the pendolino and the shunting loco is astonishing. I know those loks were built like battletanks but for me it means that the compression resistance of those pendolino trains are below average. The train, as I understood, was accelerating after a scheduled stop, but was still within station limits. So not yet that high a speed... I'm not advocating FRA-like crashworthiness norms, but there we have a problem, I think...