[5] The director of the Research Center for Contemporary History in Hamburg, 55-year-old German historian Thomas Großbölting [de], seated in the train's fourth carriage, was killed as a result of the collision.

[2][4] The Hamburg fire department dispatched around 80 emergency medical personnel to treat the injured, while local police arranged bus transportation and a rescue helicopter to evacuate uninjured passengers from the crash site.

[1][6] Following the collision, railway authorities temporarily closed the line between Hamburg-Harburg station and Maschen Yard in Lower Saxony, implementing diversions for other trains operating in the area for around 15 minutes.

[1] By the morning of February 12, recovery crews had successfully removed the damaged train from the site, and authorities had reopened one track of the affected railway line.

The truck driver was later taken into custody and questioned by authorities as part of the investigation, and faced potential charges of "negligent homicide and dangerous interference with rail traffic".