2 dead when a train crashed into a ambulance in poland [2 angles + aftermath]

today, 12:49 Poland

The recording shows that the ambulance driver drove into the passage when the barriers closed. When he was trapped between closed tollbooths, he decided to set the ambulance parallel to the tracks at one of the closed barriers. A few seconds later a collision occurred. The speeding train hit the right side of the ambulance.

Wielkopolska: the train hit the ambulance. Two people are dead 05: 19

In the accident, two people died and one is injured. The ambulance on the intersection in Puszczykowo (Wielkopolskie Province) was hit by the InterCity train from Gdynia to Katowice.

– The ambulance driver underwent a complicated operation, then he was put into a pharmacological coma. His doctors estimate his condition as severe – a Polsat News reporter found out.

“Heavy, stable, uncertain future prospects”

The wounded driver’s operation lasted several hours. – A severe, stable condition, prognosis uncertain about the future – said Dr. Mariusz Sawiński from the anaesthesiology and intensive care unit of the hospital in Puszczykowo. He added that he can not give any more information. – The patient has the right to intimacy with regard to his sicknesses – explained Dr Sawiński.

– The man has a multi-organ injury, has undergone surgery, is in a pharmacological coma. We do not inform you what injuries he suffered, said a spokeswoman for the hospital in Puszczykowo on Thursday, Marzena Rutkowska-Kalisz. She added that for now it is not known when a man will be able to participate in any activities involving the prosecutor.

The prosecutor’s office initiated an investigation

The prosecutor’s office in Poznań opened an investigation into an accident on Thursday. The proceedings are conducted on an accident with a fatal outcome, as a result of which two people were killed and a direct danger of a disaster in land traffic occurred.

On Wednesday, a visual inspection was carried out at the scene with the participation of a court expert from the forensics department. The monitoring at the station and recording from the locomotive recorder were protected. A spokesman for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Poznań, prosecutor Michał Smętkowski, said that some witnesses had already been interrogated. A mortal section of the victims of the event is scheduled for Monday.

The ambulance stood between the desolate tollboots

– From various sources we have information that at the moment of impact the ambulance stood on the tracks between the abandoned tollboots. We will verify this, including on the basis of the recording – said Andrzej Borowiak, a spokesperson for the police in Greater Poland on Wednesday.

On Thursday, the recording was made available by the osp portal. You can see that the ambulance driver entered the passage when the barriers closed. When he was trapped on the tracks between the closed tollbooths, the ambulance driver decided to retract the ambulance and set it parallel to the tracks, at one of the closed barriers. A few seconds later a collision occurred. The speeding train hit the right side of the ambulance.

– It was a car that was going to the patient and he did not get it – said Robert Judek, a spokesman for the Poznań ambulance service. – It was not a team that is part of the state medical emergency. It is a team that performs equally important tasks of transporting patients in sudden, severe and life-threatening situations.

He pulled under the closing barrier

On Thursday at the same railway crossing in Puszczykowo, the driver of the delivery vehicle, despite the traffic lights and sound signal, came under the closing dam and damaged it. – The car is stuck, but it has remained at a safe distance from the passing train – informed Polsat News reporter Adam Malik.