Train crash with 800 passengers at risk likely caused by human error

The collision of an explicit bid with a rider bid connected Sunday evening sent 79 passengers to the hospital, with 13 radical inactive hospitalized.

The explicit bid deed the backmost of the rider bid adjacent the municipality of Pezinok, Slovakia, with 800 passengers successful full aboard. None are said to successful life-threatening condition, according to The Associated Press. 

Prime Minister Robert Fico reportedly said the clang was owed to quality error.

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Slovak Railways manager Ivan Bednárik said the archetypal bid passed done a reddish light, moving into the incorrect sector, The Slovak Spectator reported.

"The explicit had already started braking, different the consequences would person been acold worse," Bednárik said, according to reports.

A Slovakia bid clang adjacent Pezinok has sent 79 passengers to the infirmary aft a collision. (Ministry of Transport of the SR)

This is the 2nd collision successful the past month, with 91 radical antecedently injured connected Oct. 13 pursuing a clang successful eastbound Slovakia, Reuters reported.

Pezinok is "a modern territory municipality with built-up industry," notes the authoritative authorities website.

The municipality is known for its viticulture and vino production, arsenic good arsenic assorted humanities monuments.

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"The metropolis is characterized by a humanities halfway with emblematic municipality houses, streets successful a regular grid program and the remains of the archetypal walls," reads the website.

Slovakia welcomed astir 2 cardinal visitors successful 2024, according to the European Union.

The explicit bid deed the backmost of a rider bid adjacent the municipality of Pezinok, Slovakia, with 800 passengers successful full connected board. None are said to beryllium successful life-threatening condition. (The Associated Press)

In September, a tourist-packed tram crashed successful Lisbon, Portugal, leaving astatine slightest 15 dormant and 18 injured.

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The cable-pulled tram Glória Funicular, which has carried residents and tourists for generations, came disconnected the tracks earlier crashing into a adjacent building.

A tram crashed successful Lisbon, Portugal, leaving astatine slightest 15 dormant and 18 injured successful September. (Patricia De Melo Moreira / AFP)

Fabiana Pavel, president of the Bairro Alto Residents’ Association, is placing blasted connected "excessive tourism" starring up to the tragic bid incident.

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"The usage of it successful caller years is surely inappropriate," helium told BBC News. "

It was utilized excessively overmuch and the colonisation mislaid the quality to usage it arsenic nationalist transport, due to the fact that it became a tourer attraction."

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The tram connects Lisbon’s downtown with the Bairro Alto territory and welcomes thousands of visitors annually, according to AP.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed reporting.