The Romanian man who died in the train crash in Greece, where two trains traveling in opposite directions on the same line collided, was 34 years old and returning from a driving test in which he passed with the highest possible score, his aunt says.

Ionut Kulea was reported missing by his family after Tuesday’s train tragedy because his relatives knew he had boarded that train.

Ionuts, who spent four years in Greece, went to Athens to take his driving test and returned home to Thessaloniki. On Tuesday night, as he boarded the train, he sent a photo from the carriage to his aunt, the woman who raised him in Braille.

“On the day of the accident, the tragic accident, he was in Athens to give a speech. He texted me, “Mom, I went to the gym.” I called him, talked to him, he was very happy. He took the hall 30 out of 30. He was smart. There was another train before it and he didn’t find a seat in that train. So unlucky! He went to the station to buy a ticket, and before that there were no more seats on that train,” said Gina Todor, Jonuts’s aunt, according to stirilorprotv.ro.

The woman says that her husband worked in construction in Greece. “He was going to come to Romania by car for Easter, and he was going to stay in Greece this year, to retire in Romania to start a family,” Ionutsa’s aunt also said, according to stirilorprotv.ro.

We will remind you that on Tuesday night there was a serious railway accident in Greece, two trains – one passenger and the other cargo – collided head-on. As a result of the accident, at least 57 people died, dozens more were injured, many are still considered missing. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported on Saturday that a Romanian was among the victims.