Railway traffic in Jaén has been interrupted for four hours after a train ran over a car that was on fire in the middle of the tracks at dawn. The vehicle was empty at the time of the collision and investigators are now trying to find out the reasons why they were at this point on the railway network, a place close to the station in the capital of Jaén, as well as to identify its owner. .
The event took place at kilometer point 122 between Jaén and Espeluy at 5:20 a.m., when the Jaén-Córdoba medium-distance train collided with the passenger car “without occupants and burned,” according to Adif. According to the account of the events, the driver would have attempted the convoy when he saw the car, which was already on fire before hitting him, but he did not succeed. After the collision, it was he himself who alerted Emergencies about what happened every time he tried to put out the flames.
The nine passengers who were on the train have been “unharmed” and the affected services have been mobilized. The road has been intercepted “as the vehicle came under the composition.”
At 7:30 a.m., the train that suffered the incident was authorized to move back to Jaén after the remains of the vehicle were removed by the firefighters, and it was removed at 7:45 a.m. The road has been closed to traffic until 9:25 a.m., since agents from the Scientific Police of the National Police have traveled to the scene of the events, as reported by the spokesperson for this body in the province, Anabel Cabrera. .
“When approaching the Las Dehesas industrial estate, in Jaén, the driver observed a car on fire in the distance that was blocking the passage of the train, so he proceeded to stop it. However, he was unable to stop it and it dragged to the vehicle a few meters,” he said.
After pointing out that “it was the driver himself who put out the fire” and called the emergency services “right afterward”, the spokesperson added that, “apparently, the car was already on fire before being hit” and There has only been material damage.
The Scientific Police are already on site carrying out the corresponding inspection. In this sense, he detailed that the owner of the vehicle has not yet been identified, since “it is completely burned,” and an attempt will be made to find him “through the frame.”
