Illegal speed of locomotives of the accident train, seen in Yazd / excavator driver arrested

According to the economic correspondent of Fars News Agency, Miad Salehi stated about the latest situation of the Mashhad-Yazd train accident that took place in Tabas region: The place where the train accident took place is a sand-catching area. In this regard, the private sector contractor in that area has a workshop to replace the traverse and collect sand, on the day of the accident, the workshop will finish the work by 4:30 and the end of the workshop will be announced and the line will be removed.

He added: “Before 05:20, when the passenger train accident occurs, a single diesel and a freight train cross the line.”

“Our question is, why does the driver of the excavator abnormally place the excavator canvas on the line and path of the locomotive?” This incident caused the locomotive to hit the excavator and the locomotive glass shattered.

He stated that the reason for the accident was the existence of this obstacle, he said: the unauthorized speed of locomotives is also considered to cross this block Unauthorized speed has been recorded, which has increased the severity of the accident after colliding with mechanical gear.

* test Awareness The non-mechanical driver unfortunately turned positive

Salehi added: ‌ The locomotive driver and the bilmechanic driver were taken to a consciousness test, which the locomotive driver had no problem with, but the bilmechanical driver’s consciousness test was unfortunately positive, and the bilmechanical driver is in custody for further investigations.

The director of the railway, stating that he is a servant A few months “I am the heir of the past,” he said. The railway owes a lot of money and the necessary resources have not been injected into it, while a significant part of the railway field has very low technologies.

Salehi added: “Of course, we have moved towards the signs of railways, but we have had the reason for the lack of resources in recent years, which we hope will be solved with the attention of the Minister of Roads and the head of the Program and Budget Organization.”

According to Fars, at around 05:20 yesterday, while passing the Mashhad-Yazd passenger train in the Abbasabad-Rizo block in the Tabas region, the locomotive of the train collided with an excavator on the side of the line and caused an accident.

According to unconfirmed statistics, unfortunately 17 people died and 86 were injured in this railway accident, many of whom were discharged from the hospital.

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