Railway incident in Romania: 12 injured after 280 passenger train brakes suddenly

Four people were admitted into hospital on Monday morning, after the passenger train they were in, which was traveling on the Arad-Bucharest Nord route, suddenly stopped, between Roşiori de Vede and Măldăeni, in Teleorman county, to avoid the impact with a freight train that had derailed. The red intervention plan was activated.

According to the latest report by the Inspectorate for Emergency Situation (ISU), 12 people were injured, four of them being transported to the hospital. The other eight were treated at the scene.

Of the four victims, a 46-year-old man and a 30-year-old woman were taken to a hospital Alexandria with head and limb injuries, conscious and cooperative, and two other people, a 59-year-old man and a a 61-year-old woman was transported to the Municipal Hospital in Roșiorii de Vede, with injuries to her limbs.

The passenger train braked suddenly because there was a freight train in front that was stopped. Two freight wagons carrying cars to Constanța had derailed, and one of them had overturned. There were 280 people in the passenger train. 200 of them were taken by ISU Teleorman minibuses to the Roșiori station, and from there they boarded another train to take them to their destination.