Three suspects and a certainty in the train massacre: that which came from Andria was not to move from the station. The prosecutor of Trani has made the first step in the survey on the massacre of the Apulian countryside and list the first names in the register of suspects. The file opened with the offense of involuntary rail disaster and multiple manslaughter aims therefore to Ferrotramviaria staff who was on duty in the Andria and Corato stations at the time of the accident: the two station masters, above all, more responsible movement of the station Andria. Warranty information will be notified to it at the autopsy on the bodies of the 23 victims.
The first investigations if they have not yet possible to reconstruct exactly the incident, however, have allowed us to have some fixed points. First of all the starting signal given to a standstill in Andria: that convoy moved when you did not have to, with the okay of the station master and the green light to go ahead. What happened? There was just a human error, prevailing hypothesis of the investigators, or even a technical failure which propelled the traffic lights?
Before listing the names of the employees of Ferrotramviaria, the prosecutor Francesco Giannella has been a pool of four judges that with him investigate in every direction. “We need to probe any possibility – said the prosecutor – also not make the mistake of stopping at what has happened.”
The line is clear, therefore, it proposes three levels of investigation: from a side will proceed to identify individual responsibilities in the control chain that has allowed the train to leave the station of Andria, the other will take into account the safety of controls by the authorities and the issue of doubling the line, putting her in safety and the use of funds to get to the identification of other persons who may have roles anything but marginal.
As we used the European funds for double the track Bari -Barletta ? Because jobs have accumulated so much delay? And again, the safety systems are adequate with respect to the legislation in force? In the past there had been of critical issues that had set off the alarm, and that have not been reported? All questions which require a clear answer, because it is unthinkable that the responsibilities of a similar disaster can only be charged to a human error.
The decision to proceed immediately on several fronts has meant that every magistrate will address a aspect of the investigation. And it is obvious that the first investigations will concern precisely the responsibilities of V.P A.P station masters and their collaborators and possible to ascertain who was wrong in giving the go-ahead. Without forgetting that the control chain provides an active role for capitreno on board convoys: one of the two, Albino Di Nicolo, however, died in the crash; the other is hospitalized.
‘This is the reason why investigators Polfer, having recovered the black boxes, they proceeded to seize a number of documents that will serve precisely to clarify the roles of each: the movement of trains waste books, pictures of the stations of Andria and Corato cameras and the video surveillance system installed on at least one of the two trains, telephone conversations between the two station masters, entered in a phonogram.
Just the vision of the images of the stations, investigators would have been able to establish two important elements. After the departure of the train from Andria there were no scenes of desperation or special activities: means that neither station masters was agreement that he made a mistake. In addition, the driver of the train from Andria could not help but start: over the stationmaster at the OK also had the all-clear signal on the line.
Investigators have also verified that there were two trains Ferrovie del Nord Barese from Corato and headed north and that one of them was traveling late: this may have been the fact that he led the station master of Andria to give the green light to train. An error that no one denies. “The train has left for the second – says the prosecutor Giannella – did not have to leave.” “The only crossing station is Andria – added the general manager of Railway stock, Massimo Nitti – That train coming down from Andria, there it was not to be.”
But Nitti also defended the system of the so-called ‘telephone consent’: communication and security based on a phonogram, “and ‘one of the operating mode that is regularly used in the railways”. Surely
are right, but the judges want to understand if indeed all the rules and regulations have been complied with. As well as wanting to shed light on the issue of doubling the line: the project is expected in 2008 and was to expire in 2015. Of course, it not ended. Because? “We have to understand. There are so many things to see and meet,” merely says the prosecutor. The survey, moreover, is only the beginning.
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