On Sakhalin, a passenger train collided with a truck – REGNUM

Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, 18 February 2016, 08:00 – REGNUM accident involving a passenger train and a goods vehicle MAN happened the evening of February 17 at the crossing “Arsentevka – Ilinskoe” According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation

tractor driver with a trailer in conditions of poor visibility due to heavy. snow went to the railway crossing on forbidding signal of a semaphore, because of what happened a collision with passenger train.

The train, traveling from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Tomari, were 36 passengers. As a result of the collision no one was hurt. Passenger car damage is not received on the locomotive and damaged coupling metelnik. Passengers were taken to their destination auxiliary locomotive.

At the scene of an accident went deputy chief of the Far Eastern Railway Evgeny Ermakov, CEO Passenger Company “Sakhalin” Dmitry Kostyrenko. As Kostyrenko said, to avoid a descent of the train derailed was possible only thanks to the professional actions of the train driver.

In fact the incident is checked.

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