Night train collision: chronicle of events, eyewitness accounts. Night train collision: chronicle of events, eyewitness accounts Collision of an electric train with a passenger
Major train accident! In the west of the capital, a commuter train crashed into a passenger train. During the impact, one carriage folded into an accordion, and three more derailed. There are people injured. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, 12 people were taken to hospitals, and by that hour seven had already been sent home.
The reason for the collision is currently being established. Apparently, the accident is exclusively man-made. Eyewitnesses say that there was no panic, the passengers helped each other until the emergency services arrived.
Late evening. The Moscow-Usovo commuter train left the Belorussky station. Went on schedule. But between the Kuntsevo and Fili stations it suddenly stopped. The lights went out in the carriages. According to passengers, after 15 minutes the power supply was restored, but the train began to slowly roll back.
“Our brakes don’t work. We’re on the train, and now we’re going to jump off the train, guys,” says one of the passengers.
It was impossible to slow down. The stop valve didn't work either. The train had already accelerated when it crashed into the Moscow-Brest train, which had stopped for several minutes.
“We tried to quickly move to the first carriage. When we reached the first carriage, most of the people were already there”, “literally ten seconds, and a sharp push, the lights go out and everyone is on the floor”, “if there had been anyone in the last carriages, no one would have survived there”, - passengers say.
Almost immediately after the accident, the place where the two trains collided was cordoned off. The scale of the destruction is visible - the last carriage of the train literally shrank like an accordion during the collision and fell on its side. Three more cars left the tracks.
The Moscow-Brest train is almost undamaged. Only his locomotive was rammed. The impact also derailed him. Passengers on the train were not injured - the driver, using a loudspeaker, told them to move to the first carriages in order to be as far as possible from the scene of the collision.
But on the train at that moment they were already getting ready for bed and were not ready for a sharp jolt. Many fell from top shelves, they received severe bruises. However, we did not give in to panic. Before the doctors and rescuers arrived, they helped each other.
“Everything fell, mugs, glass. Many hit, some against the wall, some against some ledges. The staff responded quickly to everything that was happening. There were doctors and the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the conductors responded immediately,” the girl recalls.
Five people, including the train driver, still remain in hospitals. The rest were provided with medical and psychological assistance right in the carriages. And already at about three in the morning the train was hooked up to another locomotive, and it went to Brest along a bypass route.
The Belarusian direction was completely blocked for several hours. The situation was reported to Vladimir Putin. The President instructed to eliminate the consequences of the accident as soon as possible. Until late at night, passengers who were unable to leave by train were transported by buses. And the schedule of some trains long distance had to be adjusted.
“The four trains that are now delayed, I set the task for the railway to quickly and efficiently send them along bypass highways, including organizing informing those meeting about the schedule and time of arrival,” said Russian Minister of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov.
A special commission is now establishing the causes of the accident. Meanwhile, trains in the Belarusian direction have been running on schedule for several hours. This information was confirmed by the press service of Russian Railways. All the mangled cars were removed from the tracks with the help of emergency recovery trains and cranes. And the first train passed here at 4:40 in the morning.
A video has appeared on the Internet showing the moment of a collision between an electric train and a train in the west of Moscow. The recording was made by a passenger inside the train car.
Earlier it became known that seconds before the collision, the train driver managed to warn passengers to run to the head of the train. At that moment there were 20 people in the carriages.
The phone camera captures the first impact and the dying light. You can hear shouts of “Lord, help”, “Lena, lie down on the floor!” People in absolute darkness begin to ask their neighbors if everyone is alive and who is injured. A few men take matters into their own hands and begin to lead others.
Passenger: "Hold on, let's all hold on! Everything is fine!"
Passenger: “We all lie down on the floor!”
Next, the people in the carriage agree on how and when they will jump out of the carriage.
Collisions between an electric train that has lost its brakes and passenger train happened late in the evening of April 8 on the stretch between stations “ Kuntsevo” And " Fili". To the driver commuter train Moscow - Usovo had to urgently brake because of a person running across the path in the wrong place. The commuter train was followed by a Moscow-Brest passenger train, the driver of which also braked urgently, but the distance was insufficient and a collision could not be avoided. Four carriages of the electric train and a section of the locomotive of the passenger train derailed. According to experts, it was a miracle that a big disaster was avoided: the train did not have time to gain high speed. 28 people sought medical help, 13 of them were hospitalized.
/ Sunday, April 9, 2017 /Topics: Public transport
A copter took a bird's eye view of the area railway between stations “ Fili" And " Kuntsevo” in Moscow, where an electric train and a long-distance train collided on April 8. TV channel 360 ” publishes video from the scene of the incident.
The collision of the Moscow-Usovo electric train and the Moscow-Brest long-distance train occurred due to the use of emergency braking in order to avoid hitting a person. 20 people were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity. As of the morning of April 9, train traffic was restored.
TV channel 360 ” published an exclusive video filmed by train passengers at the moment of the collision.
More than a dozen people were injured in a major train accident in western Moscow. The night before, a passenger train and a commuter train collided there.
The force of the impact can be judged by the mangled cars that derailed. Catastrophic consequences were miraculously avoided. All passengers on the train and the Moscow-Brest train survived. The accident between the Kuntsevo and Fili stations happened the night before. The passenger train was standing on the stretch when the train crashed into it.
The main version of what happened is this: the electric train driver, who was moving uphill, saw a man running across the tracks and applied the emergency brake. The load on the system turned out to be critical, the brakes failed, the train began to move backwards, accelerated and crashed into a standing passenger train. The impact threw the people in it from their seats. Seconds before the collision, the train driver managed to warn passengers to run to the head of the train. At that moment, there were 20 people in the carriages, one of them managed to record a video message with the following words: “Our brakes don’t work, we’re on an electric train, and now we’re going to jump out of the train, guys.”.
The crippled locomotive was uncoupled, and the carriages with passengers were towed back to Belorussky railway station. Immediately after the train collision, rescuers and railway workers set up an operational headquarters at the scene of the emergency, and the head of Russian Railways interrupted his vacation. The injuries of most passengers were minor, but 12 people still had to be hospitalized.
As NTV correspondent Alexey Prokin reports, only a few people remain in hospitals now, including the Moscow-Brest train drivers. The locomotive took the brunt of the attack. Investigators have already conducted conversations with the crews of both trains, and a pre-investigation check is underway.
The railway track was not damaged. The movement of electric trains and trains on the Smolensk direction resumed after 4:00 Moscow time, and passengers of the Moscow-Brest train continued their journey to Belarus.
At the time of the accident, there were 455 people in the carriages of the train heading to Brest. According to experts, a big disaster was miraculously avoided. The train did not have time to gain high speed. The recovery operation, which was already completely completed by morning, involved 170 people and 70 pieces of equipment.
In Moscow, seven people remain in hospitals after a collision between an electric train and a passenger train. The press service of the Moscow Department of Health reported this today.
Doctors assess the condition of all the victims as “closer to satisfactory,” reports “ Interfax".
Let us remind you that on April 8, at approximately 10:15 p.m., on the Fili-Kuntsevo section of the Belarusian direction of the Moscow Railway, the driver of electric train No. 6919 "Moscow-Usovo" noticed a person crossing the tracks in the wrong place and applied the emergency brake.
“Due to an emergency situation, the braking system of the electric train was disrupted, which caused it to spontaneously move into reverse side" , - reported in Russian Railways. As a result, the train crashed into the Moscow-Brest train standing on the stretch. Two carriages of the electric train and a section of the locomotive of a passenger train derailed, and traffic on the section was stopped.
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Work to eliminate the consequences of the collision was completed by 5 a.m.
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The filming was carried out by one of the passengers commuter train. She turned on the recording a few seconds before the accident.
The accident occurred late last Saturday evening. Trying to avoid hitting a pedestrian who had stepped into the path, the train driver suddenly braked. As a result, a passenger train from Moscow to Brest crashed into him.
More than 50 people were injured, 12 of them were hospitalized.
Criminal case ( "violation of traffic and operating safety rules railway transport causing major damage")
A source from REN TV journalists revealed details of the collision between an electric train and a train in Moscow, which occurred the day before.
According to the interlocutor, at 22:14 on the Fili - Kuntsevo 1 section, an emergency braking of the Moscow-Usovo electric train occurred. It is possible that there is a problem with the brake system.
The source reports that at 22:40 the train spontaneously moved backwards. This supposedly happened after air left the brake system. The train collided with the Moscow-Brest train. As a result, two tail cars of the electric train derailed.
Earlier, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported that based on the results of investigative actions, including after interrogations of drivers, the version that emergency braking by the locomotive crew of the electric train was applied in order to prevent a collision with a pedestrian is not confirmed.
The Moscow - Brest train and the Moscow - Usovo electric train collided on the evening of April 8 on the Belarusian direction of the Moscow Railway. As a result of the emergency, about 50 people were injured, 12 were hospitalized.
On the evening of April 8, a passenger train and a commuter train collided in western Moscow. Several carriages derailed and, as Russian Railways stated, 50 people were injured. Among them are two citizens of Belarus, reported at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of this country. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, 12 victims required hospitalization (the names of these people are published on the ministry’s website). There were no casualties. By the morning of April 9, train traffic on this section was restored. According to preliminary data, the collision occurred after a drunk man was crossing the railroad in the wrong place.
"April 8 at 22:16 on the Fili - Kuntsevo-1 section Belarusian direction On the Moscow Railway, the driver of the commuter train No. 6919 Moscow-Usovo applied emergency braking in order to prevent a collision with a person. Due to an emergency situation, the braking system of the electric train was disrupted, as a result of which it spontaneously moved in the opposite direction, followed by a collision with passenger train No. 3 standing on the Fili-Kuntsevo section on the Moscow-Brest route.As a result, two cars of the electric train and a section of the locomotive of a passenger train derailed, and traffic on the section was temporarily suspended.
According to preliminary information, 50 people sought medical help.
"Recovery trains have been sent to the site to eliminate the consequences of the incident."
Press service of Russian Railways
The collision between a train and an electric train in the west of Moscow occurred at low speed, which avoided serious injuries among passengers, the source noted.According to him, the collision of the Moscow-Brest train with a commuter train occurred not far from the station, when the train was still picking up speed. He added that the train's locomotive was damaged, and one of the train cars was partially derailed.
A source in the regional transport supervision services said that the collision, according to preliminary data, was provoked by a man crossing the tracks in the wrong place.
“According to preliminary data, a man who was intoxicated began to cross the tracks in the wrong place in front of an approaching electric train. The electric train driver applied emergency braking, as a result of which the train, which had slowed down on the rise, rolled back and hit the Moscow-Brest train passing nearby,” the source said agencies
"Interfax"
Following a collision in Moscow between a long-distance train and commuter train A pre-investigation check has been initiated, based on the results of which a procedural decision will be made. This was reported to Lenta.ru by the official representative of the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Tatyana Morozova<...>“At that moment there were 455 passengers and a train crew on the train, and on the train there were a driver, his assistant and 2 controllers,” Morozova said. According to her, 16 people were hospitalized after the accident, including the locomotive crew of the passenger train and 2 controllers of the commuter train.
Artyom Kol tells the chronology of events and provides eyewitness accounts of the collision of two trains that occurred on the night of April 9, 2017.
That night, the street lighting generators of the Ministry of Emergency Situations were the main silence breakers on the 9th kilometer of the Belarusian railway, on which, according to Russian Railways, the Moscow-Brest incident occurred at 22:40.
“At 10:03 we drove off, stopped about 19 minutes later and stood on the Kuntsevo-Fili bridge for a long time, about 15-20 minutes. Because the red light was always on there. After a while we felt a strong blow. The lights went out and smoke began "says a passenger on the Moscow-Brest train named Elena.
Piles of twisted metal and broken electrical wires are the consequences of a collision between two trains. According to preliminary data, as a result of the incident, several carriages of the train derailed, and the locomotive of the long-distance train was severely damaged. After providing first medical aid to the victims, the Moscow-Brest train returned to the Belorussky railway station.
"The train has been towed to the Belorusskaya metro station. Rearrangement will be made there, and in the future the train will be sent around Kyiv direction to the destination station Brest,” Ilya Denisov, head of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow, comments on the situation.
After the first reports of the collision, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived at the scene and began work to clear the railway track. Toward nightfall, the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Vladimir Puchkov, also arrived at the site and personally inspected the piles of mangled carriages.
“More than 200 people and 70 pieces of equipment are working in the emergency zone. We are clarifying the schedule for restoring the planned operation of electric trains. It is planned that we will launch all electric trains by morning,” notes the head of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, Vladimir Puchkov.
According to preliminary information, the cause of the collision was a failure of the train's brake system. Passengers of the electric train reported this. First, the train slowed down sharply, and then rolled back.
"A mechanic came and started pulling the stop valve. The stop valve didn't work. Then the driver came and told everyone to get into the first car. They started kicking people out. The driver immediately prepared for a collision, because he knew that there was still a train standing on the tracks behind “,” recalls an electric train passenger named Ekaterina.
At this moment the collision occurred. Investigators still call the human factor the main cause of the incident.
According to the preliminary version, the incident occurred due to. It is not surprising: after all, the railway is located in a densely populated area of Moscow. There are no fences here. On one side of the railway there is night club, where on Saturdays - a large number of people, and on the other side there are multi-storey residential buildings.
This is the case when they say: “The people’s path will not be overgrown.” Here you can clearly see the path that leads through the garages to the railway track, through which people walk local residents. Someone tried to install fences here, they put up bars with barbed wire. But all this, of course, does not work, and local residents walk freely across the railway.
IN Investigative Committee An investigation into the collision has already begun. It is possible that a criminal case will be initiated. And by morning it had already been restored.
