Today a passenger train traveling from Volgograd to Moscow crashed into a locomotive in Russia’s Lipetsk region this morning. 26 people are reported to be injured. Only one person was hospitalized.
The collision took place at 4:47 am, after the train changed locomotives at the Gryazi-Vorozhenskiye station in the Lipetsk region, a spokesperson for Russian Railways told the Interfax news agency.
After the locomotive swap, the 10-car passenger train slid backwards a distance of 300 meters — crashing into the locomotive that had previously been detached from the body of the train.
The regional Emergency Situations Ministry blamed the incident on a fault in the hydraulic braking system of the train’s wheels.
The passenger train suffered a delay of more than two hours but other schedules remained unaffected.
The Investigative Committee said on its website it had opened an investigation into the case.
