79 people were injured, three of them seriously, in a collision between two trains that occurred in Slovakia on Sunday evening, the Ministry of Health said on Monday. The lives of two injured people are in danger. The accident occurred 20 kilometers from Bratislava between two passenger trains heading to the Slovak capital. About 800 people, most of them students, were traveling in the two convoys.
This is the second railway accident in Slovakia in just one month. On October 13, fifty people were injured in a collision between two high-speed trains in the town of Roznava, southeast of the country. Prime Minister Robert Fico called for an emergency government meeting on Monday, after which the measures would be announced.
15 ambulances participated in the relief efforts, in addition to 60 police officers and 70 firefighters. Although the causes of the accident have not yet been officially announced, state railway company ZSSK reported that one of the trains ran a red light.
“One of the trains was in a place where it should not have been,” said Ivan Bednarek, general director of ZSSK. “I will not present the results of the investigation, but it is clear that that train ran the red signal.” Bednarek explained that this convoy left its station by mistake and collided from behind, at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour, with another train that was traveling on the same track.
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