Ministry investigating reports of another near-accident on railway

The Transport Ministry has launched an probe into reports that different perchance deadly collision betwixt two trains was narrowly averted connected Monday, and not thanks to the automated information systems that should beryllium operating connected the nationalist obstruction network.

Deputy Transport Minister Vassilis Economou confirmed the probe connected Wednesday morning, aft the incidental was reported by the Rizospastis newspaper.

According to that report, an Intercity train carrying some 200 passengers narrowly escaped crashing into a suburban railway train astatine the Korinos station successful Pieria, bluish Greece.

The suburban railway train had stopped astatine Korinos aft experiencing motor trouble, standing stationary connected the aforesaid track being used by the incoming Intercity 57, which had departed from Thessaloniki and was headed to Athens. 

The study alleged that the traffic signals for the incoming Intercity were greenish and its drivers were not alert of immoderate obstacle up until they heard their workfellow connected the suburban railway train reporting that helium was stationary astatine Korinos implicit the two-way radio. They called him connected his mobile telephone to corroborate and were capable to stop their train earlier it reached the station, where it would astir most apt person crashed into the different train, according to the report.

Neither train relation Hellenic Train nor railway relation Hellenic Railways (OSE) appears to person confirmed the incidental connected Wednesday morning.

The incidental astatine Korinos is the latest successful a string of near-disasters connected Greece’s railway network, which is already under aggravated scrutiny for superior information lapses pursuing the deadly 2023 clang astatine Tempe successful Central Greece.

One of these caller incidents progressive different suburban railway train, which was accidentally driven onto the aforesaid enactment arsenic an incoming Athens metro train but managed to backmost retired disconnected the track earlier the two collide