Transport Minister Sorin Grindianu is holding a press conference on Monday, starting at 4:00 p.m. This is practically the first public appearance of the Minister of Transport after the fatal accident at the Galati railway station, apart from several posts on the subject on Facebook.

It will be recalled that on Saturday evening, the locomotive crashed into the first car of the passenger train, which it was supposed to join, at the Galats station.

The driver of the train – a 53-year-old woman – died, three more people were injured.

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Video of the accident at Galats station, presented by the police

• “On 03/25/2023 at 7:19 p.m., a double-decker car that was parked on highway #10 is in the parking lot. 4 from CF Galaţi station, while waiting for the formation of the train on the Galaţi – Merešesti route, he was killed head-on by a locomotive that was supposed to pull the train, which was driven by a service engineer, a 49-year-old man from Tekuchi municipality.
• As a result, the car was deformed in the impact zone and displaced by approximately 80 meters.
• At the time of the incident, there was a passenger car in the train, which included a train conductor, a 53-year-old woman, a train conductor, a 47-year-old man, as well as a passenger, a man, 53 years old from Pisku commune, Galats county.”

According to the police, the needle of the locomotive’s speedometer was stuck at a speed of 75 kilometers per hour:

• “An on-site inspection was conducted by police officers of the transport department of the Galati Regional Police, and according to preliminary checks, it was established that the locomotive’s speedometer clock needle was stuck at a position of 75 km/h.
• From the words of the mechanic, it follows that the locomotive suddenly accelerated and he tried to activate the braking system, but it no longer braked.

This is the second serious train accident in less than two weeks. On March 13, a passenger train collided with a freight train loaded with cars in Rosior, and CFR Călători issued conflicting statements, initially denying the collision.

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After the company he runs initially spoke only of a mechanic’s sudden braking caused by the derailment of a set carrying Ford cars, CFR Călători CEO Traian Preoteasa admitted there had been a collision between passenger and freight trains. influence.

The priestess said that the driver of the passenger train made a so-called “controlled overtaking” by entering the red color of the railway signal: “If he was asleep, it’s better because he was inhibited by the safety system.”

Trajan Preoteasa has been the head of CFR Călători since September 2021, having been appointed by the then interim Minister of Transport, Dan Vilcanu.

The first conclusions of the internal investigation into the railway accident in Teleorman are that the driver of the passenger train that collided with the freight train did not brake, and the speed of the train dropped from 50 km/h to 0 in a distance of only 117 meters, writes Club Feroviar with reference to documents from the CFR Călători investigation.

• The mechanic did not brake – First findings of the internal investigation into the Teleorman rail accident and the speed of the CFR Călători train shortly before the collision