The train crash in Italy (update) – Railway Market

The single-track railway line between Corato and Andria near Bari in southern Italy on Tuesday, July 12 at 11:30 frontally crashed two passenger trains. There are a lot of deaths.

Update (8:30 am on July 13) . The latest balance of disaster victims is 27.

Update (19:00). However, as expected, we are increasing the number killed. Already confirmed 23 fatalities disaster. Wounded, including hard and very hard, there are 50 people. The prosecutor began on-site investigation of the fact of manslaughter and causing many disasters in the rail traffic.

Update (15:25). Local authorities Puglia region are already talking about 20 deaths . Nobody, however, has no illusions that this number will remain at this level, the scale of the devastation trains where the passengers traveled a lot, as it is huge. All the time it takes rescue.

From the train was little

The collision took part in two warehouses. The first is the electric multiple unit Flirt, structurally very similar to what they use Mazowieckie Railways and Silesian Railways. According to the findings, “Railway Market” was the band czteroczłonowym and was produced in 2008. This would mean that the first two members flirt in an accident literally ceased to exist. The second vehicle is EMUs CORADIA produced by Alstom. He was to be a four-, produced it probably in 2008 (the pictures show so that it ceased to be the first car and another was seriously damaged).

The site of the accident line is single-track

we establish what speed can develop trains on the section where the tragedy happened. Maximum speed EMUs manufactured by Alstom to 110 km / h, Flirt was approved for 160 km / h. Infrastructure at the place where the tragedy happened is in good condition at the time of the collision visibility was very good. One of the trains was traveling from Bari to Barletta, the second move in the reverse relationship. The railway line between Corato and Ruvo di Puglia is a single-track. Only between Ruvo di Puglia and Bari route is double track – thanks to modernization, which ended in 2013 and m.in led to the construction of an underground station at the airport. Karol Wojtyla of Bari. The entire line is electrified.

Both trains on the tracks near the Bari run for several years in the colors of the company Ferrotramviaria, which won the concession to run normally from the Region of Puglia. On site is ongoing rescue operation.