A serious injured in train collision with car in the line of … – publico

                 

                         
                     

                 

 
                         

A woman was on Friday injured seriously when the light vehicle that led struck a freight train on the railway line West, Career, Leiria municipality, sources of fire and Refer.

                     

                         “It was a light vehicle that struck a convoy circulating in West line,” he told Lusa the commander of the Volunteer Fire Department of Ortigosa, José Oliveira.

According to him, the alert for accident came to the corporation at 8:23 a.m..

Firefighters transported the wounded serious, the leading and only occupant of the vehicle, 69, resident in the career for the hospital of Santo André, in Leiria.

“The composition, in passing, destroyed the car completely. The car was projected onto a fountain, “said José Oliveira, adding that the circulation in the place and on the railway line was stopped until the completion of the relief work.

At the site, in

addition to the Ortigosa firefighters , were elements of the INEM, GNR, Refer and EDP, a total of five vehicles and 13 operating, informed the District Command Relief Operations

At Lusa, Susana Abrantes, of Refer -. National Railway Network, explained that the accident occurred in an automated level crossing with half barriers and light and sound signals.

“The rail traffic was restored at 9:50 a.m.,” said Susana Abrantes.