ATHENS — The station master of Greece's Larissa city, who was charged on Thursday (March 2) over the country's worst train crash, assumes some responsibility for the disaster but other factors were also at play, his lawyer said. On Tuesday evening, a passenger train with more than 350 people on board collided head-on with a freight train near the city...
A crane lifts parts of a destroyed carriage as rescuers operate on the site of a crash, where two trains collided, near the city of Larissa, Greece on March 2, 2023.ATHENS — The station master of Greece's Larissa city, who was charged on Thursday over the country's worst train crash, assumes some responsibility for the disaster but other factors were also at play, his lawyer said.
The detainee, who according to Greek state media reports was assigned his role about a month ago, appeared before a prosecutor on Thursday morning. Pantzartzidis said that his client followed the existing procedure partially and he could have been "possibly more careful, which he accepts and takes responsibility for, but until there".Pantzartzidis did not specify which factors he believed were at play in the accident or give details about what procedures his client had not followed.
"The railroad only works today because of the drivers, because they are well trained, and staff," he said. "It is listening... pass the red signal at the exit until the entrance signal at Neoi Poroi [station]," the station master responded.
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