USR President Catalin Drula accused Bucharest’s local authorities on Saturday of “lying” when they said the bus that crashed on Pasajul Unirii, injuring 21 people and killing one person, had hit elevated chains. limiter

“A video has been published that shows how the bus drove into the chain traffic light of the Soyuznaya pass in the 2nd lane (out of 4) and then changed to the left. (…) At the same time, in today’s picture, you can see how the chains from the signal light are turned upside down on the width lanes 3. Some conclusions are needed: Prefect Greble and other officials who said the pre-limiter chains were affected lied, the pre-limiter is wrong As I said in a previous post, you cannot physically bypass it if you enter the passage (can be found solutions, from being located closer to the aisle, to early physical demarcation of directions through/over the aisle),” Drula wrote on Facebook.

He added that if a truck or bus is placed in the first lane in front of the Budapest intersection, where it is logical to drive a heavy vehicle, then when crossing the intersection “it will not hit the chains”, and if there is a last-minute wrong decision to enter the passage “it will stick right in limiter” as it happened on Friday.

“The chains also caught other TIRs or buses as seen in the image and left them like that. There is practically no maintenance and reactivation of this security feature. So, (…) and if it went through lane 3, under the chains, it’s quite possible that the bus didn’t hit them because they were already overturned earlier. And as we speak (or at least this morning), even if it was an accident, The Sector 4 City Hall has refused to send a gondola to put the overturned prelimiter chains back into position,” Drula said.

The capital’s prefect, Tony Greble, said on Friday that he had called in experts even after Pasaj Unirii had its first accident, after it reopened after rehabilitation, and the conclusion was that the height had not changed.

“After the first incident (…) I called everyone who worked on this passage, plus an independent expert. They all expressed the opinion that the height of the passage remained the same as a result of the repair work, that these pre-signal barriers are at the height recommended by the designer, and they are at the same height as before. (…) (The experts) said that the height of the passage is not has changed. The roadway has been properly restored, according to the original plans. What else has changed… In addition to these buses, many builders add air conditioning systems. This is probably the reason, and apart from this reason, there is some negligence, not paying attention to the signs,” the prefect told B1Tv.