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Monday, May 1, 2023 | Pinewood International American School of Thessaloniki
Deadly Train Collision in Greece
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iYa Xiang
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On Wednesday, March 1, the PN broadcasting corporation reported that at Tempi, Larissa, 57 people were found dead and 85 injured after the Tempi train collision. The passenger train was traveling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki when it crashed head-on with the freight train, causing the front carriages to burst into flames, shortly before midnight local time.
Many of the 350 passengers on-board the passenger train were students in their 20s returning to Thessaloniki after a 3-day long weekend celebrating the beginning of Greek Orthodox Lent. “It is such a pity so many people died in a collision that could have been prevented. So many families are broken, and the entire country is devastated,” Helen Dalakas, a Pinewood teacher, said. Soon after, the main train station manager in Larissa was arrested for his involvement, and the Greek authorities released high-profile dispatch records showing one of the train drivers being instructed to ignore red lights.
The first four carriages of the passenger train were derailed, and the first two caught on fire and were “almost completely destroyed”. It is being described as the worst train crash Greece has ever seen. “I feel devastated because it is a human tragedy. I believe that the responsibility of each country is to protect its citizens and they failed!” Ms. Katerina Siganidou, a Pinewood shadow teacher said.
