"It's terrible that we had to become famous like this, we are such a forgotten valley here," said one of the residents of Jablonov nad Turnou.

The village in the Rožňava district is located under the railway line on the southern route to Bratislava. Above it rises the Soroška mountain pass.

A resident came to look from her garden to the spot where two trains collided on Monday. One was from Košice and the other from Zvolen. She had to climb a steep slope to the tracks.

About twenty meters away, police tape was stretched. Behind it, you could see the crashed trains, one of which was derailed perpendicular to the track and in danger of falling down the slope. Another car was hanging below it, but it was not visible from the track.

The Gemeran trains R913 and R914 collided after 10 a.m. at the Lipovník switch tunnel section just behind the railway traffic light. All emergency services were immediately dispatched to the scene. The trains were carrying approximately 90 passengers and four employees of the Slovak Railway Company.

One of the possible causes of the collision was that the driver of the R914 express train did not respect the stop signal and ran a red light. He continued with the train towards the tunnel, where there is only single-track traffic. At that time, a train from Zvolen was traveling in the opposite direction.

He felt a big impact.

Passengers were taken away by ambulances and fire engines. The accident site is difficult to access, with only a narrow dirt road leading to the main road past a local gardening area, which only allows one car in each direction.

Emergency vehicles had to swerve, swerve, and give way. Evacuation buses were taking passengers from the main road from Soroška.