 Image clearly showing the two trains tangled together The 2006 Rome metro crash occurred on October 17, 2006 at 9:37am local time (07:37 UTC), when one train ploughed in another train as it unloaded passengers at the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II (or Vittorio Emanuele) underground station in the city centre, killing a 30-year-old Italian woman, named Alessandra Lisi, and injuring about 145 others[1], of which a dozen were reported to be in life-threatening conditions. The entire of Line A was immediately shut down and the area above the station, the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, was cordoned off by police as rescue workers erected a field hospital, where dozens of people were treated. The injured were gradually transported to various Rome hospitals for further treatment, with the Complesso Ospedaliero San Giovanni - Addolorata, being the nearest, receiving most of them. October 17 is the 290th day of the year (291st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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While no official cause of the accident has been released, officials have excluded terrorism as a cause for the incident. Several passengers have reported that the driver of the moving train failed to stop at a red signal and that the train had been running strangely at previous stations. A senior driver has disclosed that the moving train had previously had braking problems on a test drive.[2]
A possible explanation of the accident may lie in a misunderstanding between the driver and the control centre, which would have authorized the train to proceed to the "next station", meaning a station closed to the public (Manzoni), the last before Vittorio Emanuele station, while the driver would have understood it to mean the next working station, that is, Vittorio Emanuele itself.[3]
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A subway system operates in Rome, called the Metropolitana or Rome Metro, which was opened in 1955. ...
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References - ^ http://www.rainews24.it/Notizia.asp?NewsID=64763
- ^ http://www.rainews24.it/Notizia.asp?NewsID=64766
- ^ http://www.repubblica.it/2006/10/sezioni/cronaca/scontro-metro-roma-1/scontro-metro-roma-1/scontro-metro-roma-1.html
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