At least two people died after two locomotives collided this morning in the commune of San Bernardo, in the south of the capital. chileanofficial sources reported.
According to the hypothesis of the Western Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office, the crash occurred when a freight train carrying copper rammed into an empty passenger train that at that time in the morning he was doing speed tests due to a coordination failure at the central station in charge of monitoring railway traffic.
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In the collision, both train drivers died and nine other people were injured.several of them serious but without risk of life, among them four Chinese citizens who were advising on the tests of the passenger locomotive, the source detailed.
“For reasons that are unknown, the central office was not notified that this freight train was coming north, and the train that crashed, which was coming from north to south, which did not come with passengers, was not informed that this train was coming. and the impact occurred,” explained the prosecutor’s office, which assured that an investigation has already been opened to determine the exact causes.
“There is a command control that is done from the headquarters. Carabineros personnel went to the place in order to find the people who were in charge of this. “I just spoke to the official in charge (of the state railroad agency) to give me the identity of those people,” he added.
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Recover the railway network, abandoned during the dictatorship (1973-1990)which chose to favor the truckers union, one of the fundamental pieces in the preparation of the coup against the democratic government of the socialist Salvador Allende, is one of the main points of the program of the current progressive government.
To achieve this, in the last two years investment has been made in the modernization of tracks and vehicles and several forgotten railway lines have been reopened.
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