An Ankara train crashed on December 13, 2018 , when a high-speed passenger train collided with a snowplow locomotive near the Yenimahalle area in Ankara , Turkey, on the Ankara-Konya high-speed rail line. In a collision, three wagons went off the rails. Three drivers and five passengers died on the spot, 84 - injured. One passenger died in a hospital. 34 passengers, including two in critical condition, are being treated at various hospitals in Ankara.
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Crash
On the Ankara-Konya high-speed railway line, the passenger train departed from the Ankara high-speed station ( tour. Ankara YHT Garı ) with 206 passengers on board at 06:30 UTC + 3 (03:30 UTC ) on December 13, 2018. [2] After about four minutes , a head-on collision occurred when a high-speed train traveling to Konya with a linear speed of 80-90 km / h collided directly with a snow blower in front of the Marshandiz station in the Yenimahalle region of Ankara province , which was returning from the shift to check the railway. Three wagons of a high-speed train went off the rails, and the pedestrian bridge between the railway lines collapsed into two wagons. [2] [3] Eight people, including three locomotive drivers , died on the spot. Information on 48 injured people was subsequently updated to 84. [4] [2] Among the injured passengers, three in critical condition were taken to various hospitals in Ankara. One injured passenger subsequently died in a hospital. [5] 34 people remain in hospitals. [2]
Published photographs show the 68 041 TCDD E68000 locomotive and TCDD HT80000 electric train affected in the accident. [6]
Consequences
More than 40 ambulances, 20 fire engines, police, fire and rescue teams drove to the scene of the accident [2] [5] .
Ankara's chief prosecutor launched an investigation to find out the cause of the accident [5] . Three railway workers were detained on suspicion of negligence [7] [8] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 https://www.bbc.com/turkce/haberler-turkiye-46549089
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5Ankara'da: Yüksek Hızlı Tren kazası: 9 kişi hayatını kaybetti, 84 kişi yaralandı . NTV (tr). December 13, 2018 . Quoted December 13, 2018 .
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- ↑Ankara'da: Yüksek Hızlı Tren kazası: 7 kişi hayatını kaybetti, 46 yaralı va . Hürriyet (tr). December 13, 2018 . Quoted December 13, 2018 .
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- ↑Turkey train crash: killed in Several high-speed train collision . Al Jazeera . Quoted December 13, 2018 .
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- ↑Three train workers detained after high-speed crash in Ankara leaves nine dead . Independent Television News . Quoted December 13, 2018 .