The director of the Romanian Railway Investigation Agency – AGIFER, Laurenciu Dumitru, said that the agency has started an investigation into the incident that happened on Thursday morning at the railway station in Sighisoara, where a diesel truck was on the verge of colliding with a train. a railway loaded with chemical fertilizers. The investigation may last up to a year, but the institution seeks to have some conclusions “as soon as possible” on the basis of which it will be possible to choose preventive measures.

“After this incident, according to the decision of AGIFER, it was decided to investigate this incident, which means that we will pay a lot of attention in such a way that in the shortest possible time, but not longer than a year, we will be able to get all the conclusions about what happened, the factors, that contributed, respectively, to the systemic factors that led to the occurrence of the event, and possibly issue safety recommendations. Regarding what exactly was ordered after this incident, I want to tell you that our colleagues from the Romanian Railway Safety Authority have ordered to carry out actions to identify all possible violations that existed in this incident, in such a way as to urgently cover all risks, so that things like this don’t happen again,” AGIFER director Laurentiu Dumitru said late on Saturday, news.ro quoted.

He clarified that the institution he heads does not have “coercive power”, but performs the role of “pure prevention, detection of events that have happened”.

“We do not have coercive powers, the part of the Romanian Railway Investigation Agency is exclusively part of the prevention, detection of the events that happened, and only the transfer of information to the Safety Directorate is for supervision, control and possible sanctions that can be given to the closed”, added the director of AGIFER.

We remind you that two trains, one loaded with diesel, the other with chemical fertilizers, were on the verge of collision on Thursday at the railway station in Sighisoara, after one of the mechanics fell asleep, reports clubferoviar.ro.

According to the source, the driver of one of the trains ignored the red signal to exit the station, the accident was avoided by the driver of the second train, who noticed the maneuver and braked sharply, thus avoiding an impact and a possible tragedy. .

The designated person in charge of media relations at the Romanian Railway Investigation Agency (AGIFER), Marian Zamfirake, refused on Saturday afternoon to provide details of the train incident that occurred on Thursday at Sighisoara station, citing that it was a Saturday and that free .