The Public Prosecutor's Office of Torre Annunziata has opened an investigation into the derailment of a Circumvesuviana train that occurred yesterday evening near the Pozzano station, along the Naples-Sorrento line.
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The magistrate in charge of the case has ordered the seizure of the track on which the train departed from Naples and was headed for Sorrento, having left the trajectory around 21pm yesterday.
It is not excluded that in the next few hours a technician may be assigned to carry out the necessary surveys. In the meantime, inconveniences for users remain: a short while ago the Ente Autonomo Volturno announced that the 10am train from Sorrento to Naples is cancelled on the stretch from Sorrento to Vico Equense.
However, traffic between the stations of Castellammare di Stabia and Vico Equense remains prohibited, where a bus service has been set up.
The connection between Castellammare di Stabia and Vico Equense is still interrupted
The rail link between Castellammare di Stabia and Vico Equense, in the province of Naples, is still interrupted and is currently being replaced by buses, after a train was diverted yesterday evening, according to Eav, the company that manages the Circumvesuviana service.
Fear among the travelers, forced to abandon the convoy on foot, and circulation interrupted along the route that leads to Sorrento. The incident occurred yesterday evening around 21 pm at the height of the Pozzano station, when the train departing from Naples and headed to Sorrento went off the tracks.
There was a lot of fear on board but from what we understand there were no injuries. Once the problems that had occurred on the train were ascertained and it was confirmed that there were no contraindications, the passengers, explains Eav, “were immediately rescued by another train and taken back to Sorrento”.
The episode brings to mind a similar accident that occurred two and a half months ago near the Pompei Santuario station, along the Naples-Poggiomarino route, when a train traveling at low speed left the tracks, again without causing injuries.
For Eav: Human error”
Human error. The Autonomous Body Volturno, a holding company that manages local public transport in-house with the Campania Region, provides this explanation for what happened yesterday to Circumvesuviana train 1195, which left Naples-Porta Nolana on time at 19.30:20.45 p.m. and was headed for Sorrento, but was diverted into entering Pozzano station with a running order at approximately XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.
Coming off the tracks, the front part of the first element of the convoy on a switch.
“From an initial reconstruction of the facts, it emerges (with reasonable certainty) that the derailment was caused by human error on the part of the train crew,” reads a note. Fear and inconvenience for passengers, and many decided to continue to the station on foot, even though Eav had arranged for another train to pick them up and take them to their destination.
The crew, according to Eav, "did not comply with the regulations in force in the railway sector by improperly engaging a switch. A commission of inquiry will ascertain the precise dynamics of the facts".
The judicial authority has currently ordered the seizure of the train and the track, and therefore rail traffic remains suspended on the stretch between Castellammare and Vico.
Severino Nappi, safety is not an optional
“Yet another tragedy narrowly avoided on the line Circumvesuviana NAPLES-Sorrento, with a train that went off the tracks and passengers forced to walk to the nearest station. On the worst railway line in Italy – which sets record after record for delays, poor service, cancellations of journeys – there is no limit to the worst.
There is a complete lack of maintenance on the vehicles and the line, with the very serious consequence that the safety to be guaranteed to passengers has become an optional. What is the president of Eav waiting for? That next time someone will die?
De Gregorio should take note of the total failure in the management of the regional transport company and immediately resign". This was stated by Severino Nappi, leader of the League in the Regional Council of Campania.
Article published on 27 January 2023 - 11:27
