Train derailed after crash in Poland
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
31.08.2017 08:47
Two trains crashed late on Wednesday evening in Smętowo, northern Poland, the public train operator PKP PLK has said, adding that no one was killed or seriously injured.
Photo: PAP/Tytus Żmijewski.
The engine and seven coaches of a PKP train carrying about 200 people were derailed.
A special commission is probing the incident.
One of the trains ran a stop sign but a PKP spokesman said it was unclear how that happened.
"We do not know why a freight train drove onto the main track from a side track, despite a stop signal at the Smętowo station. It caused a crash with a train ... that was already on the main track," PKP PLK spokesman Mirosław Siemieniec said, adding that no one on board the trains was seriously injured.
Twenty-eight people, including 15 children, were injured, and 17 were taken to local hospitals.
(vb/pk)