New Toll: Train Derailment in Russia Injures Over 50
The injury toll from a collision between a train carrying 800 passengers and a truck, on Monday, at a railway crossing in southern Russia has risen to 52 injuries, according to local authorities.
Reuters reported that local authorities said the accident caused at least eight carriages to derail.
Authorities in the Volgograd region stated that 21 people are still in the hospital after the train collision while it was traveling from Kazan in central Russia to Adler on the Black Sea.
Earlier reports had indicated that the number of injured was about 140 people. Earlier, Russian Railways reported that the train driver applied the brakes when he saw a truck whose driver had violated traffic rules and crossed the crossing despite warning signals.
The train hit the truck at a speed of about 65 kilometers per hour near the Kotelnikovo station, about 1,200 kilometers south of Moscow. For its part, the Mash channel on Telegram said that the truck driver, thrown 15 meters by the collision, is in serious condition.
The channel published a video showing the remains of the truck’s destroyed cabin, and a man identified as the driver, with blood on his face.
A video published by the Russian agency TASS also showed derailed carriages, some of which were twisted.
Russian Railways said that more than 300 passengers resumed their journey on one of the trains, while another train arrived in the Volgograd region to transport the remaining passengers.
