Link to Video: http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/04/world/europe/poland-trains-collide/index.html?hpt=ieu_c2
Firefighters, paramedics, the FBI and many other types of enforcement managed to climb through several hundred thousand tons of mangled steel wreckage early on Sunday morning searching for survivors. It was not a pretty sight after two passenger trains collided in southern Poland, leaving at least 16 citizens dead.
“An American citizen was among the people that died, as well as 15 other souls”, said a spokesman with the U.S. Consulate in Krakow, Poland.
One train was on the wrong track going 75 miles per hour making this collision unavoidable. Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the accident Poland’s ‘most tragic train catastrophe in years…”. Mr. Tusk arrived at the scene early on Sunday morning along with many other officials and three other cabinet ministers. President Bronislaw Komorowski has said he will announce a period of national mourning after emergency teams have completed their work to remove the wreckage from the track and get trains moving through that area as soon as possible.
Many train schedules were either delayed or cancelled during this tragic event, causing the train company to lose many customers and members. The train caused damage to nearby buildings bringing even more lawsuits in other than the ones that were filed due to the people that died along with landscaping charges that were filed because of the huge holes carved in people’s lawns by all the flying debris. Now some good news. Out of the 10 passenger cars and 350 people involved, only 107 were injured and only 16 passed away. The tracks are presumed to be cleaned up by no later than Wednesday, March 15th.
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