The Justice This Wednesday, six railway workers were prosecuted for the collision of trains on the line San Martín occurred last May 10 in the Palermo neighborhood, when a formation carrying passengers collided with another empty one, leaving 61 people injured, two of them seriously.
The 11th Federal Criminal and Correctional Court, in charge of Julian Ercolinidictated the prosecution for aggravated negligent damage to signalmen, train drivers and assistants, considering that there was a “convergence of reckless behavior” that led to the aforementioned accident.
Justice prosecuted six railway workers
Those pointed out are Nahuel Alejandro Morales, Mariano Ignacio Filangieri, Damián Bartoletti Renzi, Leandro Martínez, Javier Armando Silvero and Alfredo Fernando Gomez. Furthermore, various embargoes were issued on all of them.
At the same time, it was decided to dismiss Jorge Luis Oliva, Sabrina Joao, Christian Adrián Guevara, Gonzalo Sebastián Krenz, Emmanuel Martín Villafañe Arieta and Alejandro Goldfarb.
It should be remembered that the train crash investigated by Justice occurred around 10:30 in the morning on Friday, May 10, at the intersection of Figueroa Alcorta and Dorrego avenues. There a passenger train collided with another empty train, causing the latter to derail.
The incident caused 61 injuries, two of them seriously, but there were no fatalities. The authorities quickly mounted a large rescue and security operation to help the affected people.
Quickly, the judicial authorities They charged two train drivers and their assistants, along with three assistants from the Palermo station, although, in principle, no direct responsibility had been determined.
From the beginning, The strongest hypothesis would fall on the task of the auxiliaries and a possible warning failure.
“A locomotive with a car was traveling towards Palermo at low speed. The passenger train was supposed to be stopped near Salguero, but the assistant stopped it and authorized passage,” sources in the case commented on the occasion.
Complaint
After the fact, Oscar Maturanohead of the train drivers’ union “La Fraternidad”, had denounced that the driver of the train with passengers had a written notification that authorized him to circulatedespite the locomotive that was with an empty van was stopped on the planned route.
In dialogue with Radio 10, Maturano denounced that “signaling cables are stolen”, and the workers have been asking for maintenance for at least ten days. “There is no circuit due to the theft and all the signals were off,” For this reason, an authorization was needed to enable the circulation of the training.
“There was a stopped locomotive. Written authorization was given to the driver who came with passengers. He encountered the locomotive and they collided,” Maturano said about the incident that occurred this morning when a formation was heading from Retiro to the North Zone of the Buenos Aires suburbs.
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The union member denounced “a total degradation of the company. There are no spare parts for the cables, cars and trains.” Then he continued listing criticism of the current situation that runs through the train system.
“There is a total degradation because there is no budget according to those who run the company. There is no budget for electric shocks, we have 60 Chinese locomotives that were bought new and are stopped,” Maturano added and pointed out that the 150 cars are “dismantled” because “a spare part is taken out so that another car can continue running, and then they are left sideways”. “Those cars are stripped bare and are no longer useful,” Maturano concluded.
Source: Ambito
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