 Visibility that night was very poor due to heavy drizzle and fog, so the D 180 train ran through a signal at danger at Belicke and ran into the D 10 at 100 to 110 km/h.The contemporary news media understated the death toll and gave only limited coverage of the accident.The war-damaged Potsdam station closed in 1945 and the southern section of the S-Bahn was closed in 1945/1946 and never reopened.