Moscow-Chelyabinsk train delayed by fuel truck collision
Train No. 14 from Moscow to Chelyabinsk was delayed by 1 hour and 44 minutes due to a traffic accident on the tracks. The Kuibyshev Railway reported this on Wednesday, 4 February. At night, in Mordovia (a republic in western Russia), a fuel truck and a passenger train traveling on the Ulyanovsk–Moscow route collided.
«The train driver applied emergency braking, but the distance was insufficient and the collision could not be avoided,» the press service of the Kuibyshev Railway said. «According to preliminary information, the driver of the truck was injured in the accident. Passengers and the train crew did not seek medical attention.»
The truck was pinned under the locomotive, and the driver«s cab was damaged. Five passenger trains were delayed due to the accident:
No. 14 Moscow – Chelyabinsk (by 1 hour 44 minutes);
No. 21 Ulyanovsk – Moscow (by 2 hours 59 minutes);
No. 31 Orsk – Moscow (by 2 hours 31 minutes);
No. 42 Moscow – Saransk (by 1 hour 13 minutes);
No. 65 Tolyatti – Moscow (by 2 hours 16 minutes).
The Mordovia EMERCOM office clarified that the Scania truck was moving with an empty fuel tanker.
«The preliminary time for resuming train movement is 8 hours,» the agency reported.
