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The Police are investigating what happened to clarify the cause of the accident, which caused the test car to jump completely onto the freight train, which was also transporting passengers.
The Police are investigating what happened to clarify the cause of the accident, which made the car jump of tests completely on the freight train, which also carried passengers.
Photos and video from the scene show a wagon suspended several meters in the air above a wrecked freight train. Two dozen emergency vehicles They swirled in the tangle of crushed metal as helicopters flew over the San Bernardo area, south of Santiago, the capital.
The eight-car freight train, which transported 1,346 tons of copperalso carried people, while the other train carried 10 workers who were carrying out a speed test, according to the state railway company.
Security camera images showed that Both trains were traveling at high speed when they collided. each other. It is not clear why the test train had not been alerted to the approaching freight train. The authorities indicated that it could be due to a fault in a signaling device.
