Two rail employees sentenced over 2012 fatal rail crash
PR dla Zagranicy
Alicja Baczyńska
15.07.2016 12:09
A district court has handed out jail sentences to two traffic contollers over a 2012 rail crash that killed 16 people in Szczekociny, southern Poland.
Judge Jarosław Poch announces a sentence in a court trail over the 2012 rail crash in the southern city of Szczekociny. Photo: PAP/Waldemar Deska
Andrzej N. was sentenced to 4 years and Jolanta S. (names withheld under Polish privacy laws) to 2.5 years in prison. They were accused of unwittingly causing a rail disaster.
On 3 March 2012, the two controllers unwittingly cleared two trains to run on a single track – one of them northbound, travelling from Przemyśl to Warsaw and the other southbound, on a journey from Warsaw to Kraków.
A collision that followed claimed the lives of 16 people and left over 150 injured.
The court in Częstochowa, southern Poland, also banned the two traffic controllers from performing their duties for a period of ten years.
The sentence is subject to appeal. (aba/pk)
Source: PAP
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