Drama morning head-on collision between two trains on a single track line between Corato and Andria, in Puglia Tableland. Twenty-seven deaths so far recovered in the wreckage, while the wounded are over fifty. “A tragedy unacceptable”, the head of Sergio Mattarella State. “We want to be made clear, on the whole,” hopes the prime minister Matteo Renzi, who in the evening flew in Puglia. So many messages of solidarity from abroad, by Pope Francis to Vladimir Putin. The prosecutor in Trani investigates for multiple manslaughter and train wreck. At the time the file was opened against persons unknown.
CLASH TO 100 PER HOUR – The accident shortly after 11, at kilometer 51 of the line operated by the private company Ferrotramviaria. One of the two trains had departed from Corato directed to Andria and the other, on the contrary, came from Andria and went in the direction of Corato. On board there are usually, in addition to commuters and students, many passengers who have to reach the airport of Bari Palese. The impact between the trains, which were traveling at a speed of 100-110 km per hour, is violent. The wagons are literally crumbled, pieces of sheet metal flying tens of meters between the olive trees of the Apulian countryside, the sides of the tracks. One of the trains had only two carriages remained almost intact; the other only the last, or tail. On the ground are killed and injured.
SCENE FROM AIR CRASH – Speaker immediately a helicopter of the fire brigade. In place even the police and staff of 118. The scene is horrifying. The screams of the wounded, dismembered bodies. “It’s a disaster as if it had fallen a plane!” Says the Mayor of Corato, Massimo Mazzilli. Throughout the day, rescuers are scrambling to retrieve the victims and to rescue the wounded. Among them also children. An appeal is launched by the local health: need of blood. In the collision one of the two drivers died while you do not have, at the time, news of the fate of the colleague who was on the train.
It would be alive, though severely wounded, one of the two train drivers. It is learned from the investigators sources, instead confirm that the other driver would have died on impact. To him, in fact, belong some human remains – especially a leg and a hand – recovered from the plates of the locomotive of the train from Bari. It is not known, however, the fate of the two capotreni: do not know, in fact, to what carriage they were at impact.
FAILURE OR HUMAN ERROR? OPEN INQUIRY – It opens the hunting of responsibility. technical failure or human error? The blame is put the single line. But the prosecutor of Trani, Francesco Giannella, who heads the investigation, said that “apparently we have clear ideas; This means that we work human error or what it has determined or simply on the instructions that were given to the staff. ” In any case, for now there is no investigated. And there are those who point the finger at the lack of automatic systems for the railway line supervision: in what is, in fact, the so-called ‘telephone block, that is, the telephone communication of the green light on the single track is still used. “One of the two trains is too many, as it will clarify the investigation,” he said on his part the director general of Ferrotramviaria, Massimo Nitti. The two convoys, he added, “were ultramodern, one in 2005 and another in 2009, with effective braking systems.” A commission of inquiry was announced by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Graziano Delrio, arrived at the scene. It also investigates the incident, the prosecutor in Trani with the deputy prosecutor Francesco Giannella. To do surveys will be the Polfer.
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