Briton among 3 dead in train crash
Saturday, June 16, 2007
A PASSENGER train and a goods train collided on the Italian island of Sardinia yesterday killing three people, including a British tourist, police said.
Six people were injured in the head-on collision on a single line track between the towns of Bitori and Bortilagi in the centre of the island, an officer of the carabinieri paramilitary police at the scene told AFP.
The crash killed the driver of the passenger train, a British woman named as Elizabeth Beever, 28, and another passenger, Captain Davide Egidi said. One of the injured was in critical condition, he added.
Ansa news agency said there were two critically injured.
There were eight people on the passenger train at the time of the accident, according to the officer.
Rescuers had not immediately retrieved the body of the dead driver which was stuck in the wreckage.
Egidi said a "communications error" was believed to have caused the crash and neither train knew the other was on the line.
Media reports said investigators believed the goods train ignored an order to stop in Bortigali.
The regional train line runs between the Sardinian towns of Nuoro and Macomer in an industrial zone of the mainly tourist island. Train collisions are quite frequent in Italy where 60 per cent of lines are only single track. On April 16, several people were injured when a passenger train collided with a goods train.AFP
Six people were injured in the head-on collision on a single line track between the towns of Bitori and Bortilagi in the centre of the island, an officer of the carabinieri paramilitary police at the scene told AFP.
The crash killed the driver of the passenger train, a British woman named as Elizabeth Beever, 28, and another passenger, Captain Davide Egidi said. One of the injured was in critical condition, he added.
Ansa news agency said there were two critically injured.
There were eight people on the passenger train at the time of the accident, according to the officer.
Rescuers had not immediately retrieved the body of the dead driver which was stuck in the wreckage.
Egidi said a "communications error" was believed to have caused the crash and neither train knew the other was on the line.
Media reports said investigators believed the goods train ignored an order to stop in Bortigali.
The regional train line runs between the Sardinian towns of Nuoro and Macomer in an industrial zone of the mainly tourist island. Train collisions are quite frequent in Italy where 60 per cent of lines are only single track. On April 16, several people were injured when a passenger train collided with a goods train.AFP
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