Five of the approximately thirty people who were injured in the train accident near Voorschoten on Tuesday are still in hospital. Of those five, one is still in intensive care (ic). The Regional Consultation Acute Care Chain (ROAZ) reports this on Thursday.
One patient was transferred from the IC to a nursing ward in the LUMC in Leiden on Thursday. There are still two patients in the UMC Utrecht. Three others who had been lying there since the accident have been fired.
A patient is still lying in the HMC Westeinde in The Hague. The injured man who was in the Groene Hart Hospital in Gouda went home on Thursday.
Aftercare and support from Victim Support is available for the injured. On Wednesday, 32 travelers and others involved in the train disaster had made use of this. The NS said to send flowers to all travelers.
One person died in the train accident. It concerned the 65-year-old driver of a construction crane, who was on the track. A freight train collided with that crane around 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning. The wreckage of the crane vehicle ended up on another track, causing an intercity train to collide with it and derail.
Due to the accident, no trains will run between Leiden and The Hague until at least April 18. ProRail needs that time to repair the major damage to the track and overhead wires.
