Court appearance of station master in Greece train crash delayed
At least 57 people died when a passenger train slammed into a freight carrier late on Tuesday at Tempe, 235 miles north of Athens.
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At least 57 people died when a passenger train slammed into a freight carrier late on Tuesday at Tempe, 235 miles north of Athens.
The government has blamed the crash on human error, and a railway official was charged with manslaughter.
ATHENS - The train tragedy that unfolded in Greece this week, claiming dozens of lives in the country's worst rail disaster, has exposed chronic failures by successive administrations, insiders say.
ATHENS — The station master of Greece's Larissa city, who was charged on Thursday (March 2) over the country's worst train crash, assumes some responsibility for the disaster but other factors were also at play, his lawyer said. On Tuesday evening, a passenger train with more than 350 people on board collided head-on with a freight train near the city...
The government has blamed the crash on human error, and a railway official was charged with manslaughter.