[1] The crash was due to the train driver failing to notice a temporary speed limit and travelling too fast through that section of track.

Initially, people had to be carried by stretcher several hundred metres to the ambulances, although the rescue was subsequently better organized.

Hours after the disaster, the uninjured passengers were taken, by bus, to Gouda whence they were transported to Hook of Holland by train.

The clear up work continued through the night and the following morning, when rail cranes were able to lift some carriages back onto the track.

The day after the crash, train traffic resumed on one track while the president of the Nederlandse Spoorwegen, ir.