Pioltello railway accident
Coordinates: 45 ° 28 ′ 58 ″ N , 9 ° 18 ′ 45 ″ E
In the railway accident near Pioltello on January 25, 2018, a regional train derailed due to a broken rail . Three people died.
Starting position
Pioltello is about eight kilometers east of the city center in the east of the Milan conurbation at an altitude of 117 m slm
It was not until January 11, 2018 that the Milan – Venice railway line was checked with a track measurement train in the area that would later be the area of the accident , which happens every 14 days, and it was planned to replace the worn track. The route is one of the busiest on the Italian railway network. The structural condition of the route was previously criticized by the press. In the direction of travel towards Milan, the scene of the accident was about one kilometer west of the Pioltello-Limito station at distance kilometers 12.4 / 4.8.
The regional train R 10452 of the Lombard railway company Trenord was on the way from Cremona to Milan to the Milano Porta Garibaldi station . It consisted of five cars that of a electric locomotive of the series E.464 were pushed. There were about 350 people on the train.
the accident
At 6:57 a.m. the third car of the train derailed when it was traveling at a speed of about 140 km / h. At least one bogie derailed , which is also shown by a video of the train passing through the Pioltello-Limito station. After the accident was at the point where the train derailed was originally found that by a 23 cm long piece of rail of the rail head was broken.
The engine driver started an emergency braking . When two cars broke out of the train, they knocked down three overhead line masts and got caught on a fourth, bringing the train to a standstill. From the original derailment point to a standstill in a difficult-to-reach place between the villages of Seggiano di Pioltello and the Segrate stop , the train traveled about two kilometers. The middle car buckled about 40 ° around its vertical axis when it collided with the catenary mast.
consequences
Three people died in the accident , ten were seriously injured and around 100 were slightly injured.
The line was closed on the section between Milan and Brescia for about 24 hours and then gradually went back to regular service.
The public prosecutor initiated proceedings against four people for endangering rail traffic: the managing director and operations director of Trenord, the managing director and general director of the railway infrastructure operator Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has independently launched a further investigation.
literature
- fsch: Trenord regional train derailed near Milan . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 3/2018, p. 129.
Web links
- Video recording of the accident train passing through the Pioltello-Limito station
- Press report Aargauer Zeitung with photo series
Remarks
- ↑ Cremona from 5:42 am, Milano Porta Garibaldi at 7:24 am.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d NN: Milano, treno di Trenord deraglia a Pioltello . In: Fatto Quotidiano of January 25, 2018; accessed on February 1, 2018
- ↑ a b c d e NN: Le indagini sull'incidente ferroviario fuori Milano In: Il Post from January 26, 2018, accessed on February 3, 2018
- ↑ Information according to the German Railway Atlas . 10th edition. Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2017, ISBN 3-921679-13-3 .
- ↑ a b c d e Trenord regional train derailed near Milan. In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 3/2018, p. 129
- ↑ Playback of the video: [1] .
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Dead in train accident near Milan. Retrieved January 25, 2018 (German).
- ↑ a b Train derailed near Milan - two dead . In: sueddeutsche.de . January 25, 2018, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed January 25, 2018]).
- ^ Italy train crash: Two killed near Milan . In: BBC News . 2018 ( bbc.com [accessed January 25, 2018]).