This Sunday the funerals of the two fatalities that left the train crash occurred last June 20 in the commune of San Bernardo.
Is about José Bonín, 58 years old, and Daniel Vega, 43 years oldwho were drivers of the company’s freight train.
In the case of Bonín, He had been working in the company for more than 35 years and he was also president of the union at that company. On a more family level, he was married and had a daughter.
Ariel Gonzalezbrother-in-law of José Bonín, spoke with 24 Hour Channel about the death of the driver and commented that as a family they have been “hit” by his death.
“First, thinking as a family how to rebuild ourselves, because we have been very hit, especially my sister and my niece, because this accident has been tragic and we see that here we have to start rethinking life forwardabove all as a wife alone, without her husband and a daughter who also today will not be able to count on her father anymore,” she expressed.
What was José like at work?
“José was about to celebrate almost 36 years working in the company. He is a very experienced machinist, with many years of experiencewhere it had also had some events, but minor ones, like all little machines, and he was very dedicated to his work, he loved his colleagues very much“, he continued recounting.
“Throughout his stay at Fepasa he dedicated himself to fighting and fighting for his teammates. He was an innate leader and for this reason, at least in four or five terms, each lasting four years, he served as president of the union,” he added.
“For the same reason, because apart from his job, which he loved and loved very much, He was also always very attentive to achieving improvements for his teammates.whether salary, labor, but also security, and I get the impression that it is precisely the latter that ends up taking his life, because security today is in question in the ownership of EFE’s railways,” were part of his words.
