“Over 60 injured people” in a tram accident in Bucharest
Bucharest Ambulance Service announces that three people are seriously injured in several trams collision in Lujerului underpass in the capital.
Articol de Marilena Frâncu, 12 Mai 2012, 11:58
60 people were injured, three seriously, after a tram accident happened Thursday morning in the capital in Lujerului underpass.
37 people injured in the accident were taken to hospital by SMURD crews and others went to hospitals on their feet, said Bogdan Oprita, coordinator of the Emergency Mobile Reanimation and Extrication Service(SMURD).
IM head, Dantes Nicolae Bratu, said it is a collective accident and the investigation which will determine the causes of the accident is ongoing.
The trams involved in the accident will be subject to technical expertise that takes about two weeks.
The inspectors have already begun to take statements of witnesses and victims to the hospital.
Among those injured, 20 were transported to the City Hospital, 13 to Hospital Elias and 27 to Hospital Floreasca.
Daniel Pistea, under-commissary at the Traffic Police Brigade, said that the authorities have started an investigation on the spot and the official cause has not been established.
The survey is coordinated by policemen from the Traffic Brigade, under the direct guidance of public prosecutors attached to the district court in June.
Daniel Pistea said that all three train drivers involved in the accident have been tested but none had consumed alcohol.
Tram circulation on line 41 was resumed at around 13.30, in both directions, after nearly seven hours after the accident in the Lujerului underpass.
The trams involved in the accident were restored and removed from the underpass, and the policemen have checked the tramway to see if there are traces of braking.
One of the train drivers is at the hospital for biological sampling.
RATB management said that has been established a technical committee to determine the causes of the accident and, according to survey results, there will be taken legal measures which are compulsory.
"We specify that the Bucharest Public Transport Authority( RATB) has contracts for insurance of passengers and baggage. RATB apologize to travelers for the unwanted event," it is shown into a press release.
The works to modernize the tramline began in October 2001.
Exactly one year later, on October 21, 2002, the mayor at that time, Traian Basescu, inaugurated the investment.
Translated by Alexandra-Diana Mircea
MTTLC, Bucharest University
