New information on the circumstances under which the tragedy occurred in Tempe they see the light of day. According to the SKAI TV channel, the 59-year-old head of the station, a few hours before the collision of two trains, sent a local train – a suburban train of Larisa – onto the wrong tracks.

According to the same information, the commuter train driver understood and pointed out the mistake by reversing the train to get back on the right track.

According to the channel, a tape recorder of one of the two trains was also found at the crash site, but it has not yet been specified which train it belonged to.

Conversations between the driver of the Intercity train and the head of the station, Larisa, are also under the microscope of the authorities.

According to the Alfa TV channel, the driver of the Intercity train asked the head of the station, “I’m on the way down, is everything all right with me?” The head of the station Larisa, according to the same report, did not give an answer.

The first words of the station master

It is reported that the head of the Larisa station immediately after the arrest was in a very bad psychological state.

According to ERT, he allegedly shouted to those who saw him: “I carry 35 coffins on my back…”.

The stationmaster received a new term

Larissa’s stationmaster received a new deadline for Sunday morning to apologize for the tragic accident at Tempe.

The stationmaster faces serious charges of violating traffic safety, a crime that is prosecuted under a recent amendment to the Criminal Code as a felony and carries a sentence of ten years to life in prison.

He also faces charges of serial manslaughter, as many as the number of people who died, but also charges of inflicting bodily harm with the same criminal qualification as the wounded who got out alive.

However, according to the indictment filed against him, the omissions are serious, they are not limited to his mistake in sending the train in the wrong direction, but continue, as from the electronic system operating to the point in Larisa, he could see the train that started off incorrectly and correct his fatal decision.

Expansion of the study

In the same time, as “K” wrote todayin search of criminal liability for the tragedy against officials who had the duty to appoint the head of the station as the shift supervisor to the responsible post of Larisa, the prosecutor’s office acts immediately.

According to the information, the head of all investigative actions, the head of the Larissa Appeal Prosecutor’s Office, Stamatis Daskalopoulos, asked that investigative actions be directed to search for all the data on how the inexperienced head of the station was alone in the Larissa Appeal Center for 4 days. mail, and indeed, when during the three days of Maslenitsa Monday, train traffic was intense.

55 of the 57 dead have been identified.

An additional death was previously identified from samples examined at forensic laboratories, bringing the total number of identified victims of the tragic Tempe train accident to 55.

Recall that the total number of confirmed deaths at the moment is 57 people.

According to the latest reports from the headquarters of the Greek army, there are also two samples of biological material provided by relatives that do not match the samples of the dead. This cannot rule out the final number of casualties, but laboratory testing procedures have not yet been completed.

Critical Issues

Critical questions about the “chain of errors” that led to the Tempi tragedy, as well as the explanation for the explosion caused by the collision of two trains, were raised by Christos Glavopoulos, a mechanical engineer and forensic scientist.

The first question he asked to ERT was whether the Larisis stationmaster knew that the commercial train was running on the same line as IC62. “It is not made public whether he knew that he was indeed sending a passenger train on the same route, this action cannot be explained logically,” Mr Glavopoulos said.

Secondly, according to him, looking at his console, the head of the station could see the process of convergence of two trains, that is, that they were going to collide. “Technical experts will have to investigate whether the console itself actually shows. How can we draw a conclusion if we do not know two key points? Firstly, if it were documented, and secondly, if the console really showed what it should show, ”he said characteristically.

In addition, he said that the Railway Regulatory Authority has to answer a number of questions as it checks, collects and solves the problems of OSE, ERGOSE, TRAINOSE, Hellenic Train and everyone involved in the country’s railway project.

What caused the explosion?

Regarding the “mushroom” tens of meters high, which rose after the explosion, the medical examiner spoke with great confidence about the ignition of the oils that regulate the brake system.

“The brake system runs on oil, which is constantly under pressure, when a space explodes or a tank containing oil and other systems is suddenly released, gas appears and lights up,” he said.