English Translation

90 N 3656 / 40. Boyang accident report of 9.XII.l940. 1313 heler1 On 9 December 1940 at 3 p.m., a collision took place in the Pulverturm bridge section of the tramway. In the road direction to the powder tower is a train of the line ll with a motorcycle of the SS-Truppe, sign SS-178-52, at the road mouth of Bergmanngasse in the ditch opposite the coffee house Savarin cobbled. According to the report of the EP there was clear weather on the above day, the track was wet, straight and in a 5.l % gradient. The train of the line ll,consisting of the railcar No.2l70 and the trailer car No.ll46 and ll57, was steered by the driver Domi-nik K o č í ,DNr.l973,the wagon hall Wokowitz.It has just after leaving the stop "Brückel" its journey in adapted 99 66 ter speed to the stop ,,Pulverturm continued, when at the side geleise in the opposite direction, i.e. from the powder tower to Bergmanngasse a train of line 19, which followed a train a few meters further on the line 3. It consisted of the train no.20l3 and the trailer car no.692 and was steered by the driver Josef T r n ě n ý , Dn. 3423, the Pankratz car hall. The train of the line ll approached the mouth of Bergmanngasse-Graben and thus also at the same time the beginning of the intermediate space between the carriage sequence of the mentioned opposite trains of lines 19 and 3, when in the same moment between the two successively followed the opposite trains unexpectedly passed through a mo-torrad of the SS-strup coming from Bergmannstrasse.This turned into the powder tower and drove directly in front of the left front platform side of the ll-er-Zugs.