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Police have launched an investigation into the metro accident
Budapest – Police have launched an investigation into an unknown perpetrator on suspicion of a careless danger to rail traffic in a case of a metro accident at the Kőbánya-Kispest station on Saturday.
The Budapest Police Headquarters (BRFK) informed MTI on Sunday that on January 22, at 0:10 a.m., one metro train collided with another train in the area of the Kőbánya-Kispest metro terminal closed to passengers, so both vehicles derailed. During the accident, one of the trains collided with a third stationary metro train.
Photo: MTI / Zoltán Mihádák
The vehicles did not carry passengers and no one was injured in the accident.
The police are investigating the circumstances of the case with the help of experts. There was no interrogation of the suspect, the BRFK wrote.
On Saturday, BKV informed MTI that two metro trains had collided in the “pull-out” section of line 3 in Kőbánya-Kispest, and a third train was stuck in the area. Both the traffic safety organization and the BKV are investigating the circumstances of the case. The assessment of the material damage is in progress, wrote BKV.
The Budapest Transport Center (BKK) wrote on Sunday that due to the recovery of the metro accident, a replacement bus is expected to run on the metro line 3 between Határ út and Kőbánya-Kispest every weekday next week. In the southern section of the line, the metro trains only run between Oradea Square and Határ út station, he added.
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