Greece Train Crash: at least 43 people killed

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It is hard to believe that 2 trains were quickly going into each other on the same rail line.

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Greece Train Crash: at least 43 people killed

CTV News on Youtube shows that a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train flattened carriages, killed at least 36 peo...
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CTV News on Youtube shows that a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train flattened carriages, killed at least 43 people and injured some 85, Greek officials said Wednesday, with the death toll expected to rise.

The cause of the crash was not immediately clear, but the stationmaster in the nearby city of Larissa was arrested Wednesday. The police did not release his name.

Another two people have been detained for questioning. Paul Workman has the latest update.

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Death toll keeps rising in Greece's deadliest train crash

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Rescuers comb wreckage of Greece's deadliest train crash

Rescuers searched late into the night Wednesday for survivors amid the mangled, burned-out wrecks of two trains that collided in northern Greece, killing at least 43 people and crumpling carriages into twisted steel knots in the country's deadliest rail crash.
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TEMPE, GREECE - Rescuers searched for survivors Wednesday in the mangled, burned-out wreckage of two trains that slammed into each other in northern Greece, killing at least 43 people and crumpling carriages into twisted steel knots in the country's worst-ever rail crash.
 
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bill barilko said:
Not hard to believe if you ever saw how lazy stupid & corrupt Greeks are their transportation systems are a shambles and have been for ages.
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That's unfortunate.

What went wrong? More explanations here:

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What went wrong in Greece? All to know about deadly train crash

At least 57 people were killed when a passenger train collided head-on with a cargo train outside the city of Larissa.
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  • Authorities are still investigating the circumstances that led to the crash.
  • Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said it happened “mainly due to a tragic human error” but did not elaborate.
  • Police have arrested the Larissa station master, who is responsible for rail traffic on that stretch of the tracks. He was due to appear before a prosecutor on Thursday to be formally charged.
  • Investigators were trying to determine why both trains were on the same track “for many kilometres”.
  • Yiannis Ditsas, head of the railway workers union, told Skai TV that automatic signalling at the crash site had not been working.
  • Industry experts say systems that signal whether a track is already occupied by setting off a red light or that automatically operate a switch to divert a train onto another track are not properly maintained.
  • “Red lights malfunction very often or they turn on for no reason, and the culture in the Greek rail system is that drivers and station masters have learned to ignore them,” said Al Jazeera’s John Psaropoulos, reporting from Larissa.
  • “The last conversation recorded between the station master and the passenger train driver suggests exactly such an incident of simply ignoring the signalling. The station master says, ‘you are good to go, you are good to go,’; the train driver wasn’t sure if the signalling was correct for him to leave,” he added.
  • Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned, saying he was taking responsibility for the state’s longstanding failures to fix a railway system that, he said, “was not fit for the 21st century”.
  • Nikos Tsouridis, a retired train driver trainer, said drivers involved in the crash had died “because there were no safety measures”. “And why were there no safety measures? The station master made a mistake, he acknowledged it. But surely there should be a safety mechanism to fall back on,” he said.
  • Train unionists say the safety shortcomings of the Athens-Thessaloniki railway line, the main one in the country, had been known for years.
  • Greece sold railway operator TRAINOSE under its international bailout programme in 2017 to Italy’s Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, expecting hundreds of millions of euros to be invested in rail infrastructure in the coming years.
 
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bill barilko said:
Look at these asswipes trying to dock a ferry and tell me they aren't complete idiots.

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Interesting. Maybe that's how it is done. I am not an expert on navy and seaships. They sure put an effort into it.

The modern train disaster is really bad.

However, I will give bonus points for Ancient Greeks.

One of the most brilliant civilizations in world history, that of the ancient Greeks laid many of the foundations for the whole of Western civilization.
 
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Wise said:
Interesting. Maybe that's how it is done. I am not an expert on navy and seaships. They sure put an effort into it.

The modern train disaster is really bad.

However, I will give bonus points for Ancient Greeks.

One of the most brilliant civilizations in world history, that of the ancient Greeks laid many of the foundations for the whole of Western civilization.
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Feh. Keep your Socrates, your Aristotle, your Sophocles.

Canada gave the world Stompin' Tom!
 
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