Tragedy at the Rubiera freight yard in Reggio Emilia, where a Mercitalia (Italian State Railways) driver was hit and killed on the tracks by a moving train.

It happened yesterday evening around 8:40 p.m., with traffic on the Milan-Bologna line immediately suspended. The Carabinieri were on site to reconstruct the dynamics.

As far as we know, according to an initial partial reconstruction that is being verified by the Carabinieri, the man, a Mercitalia shunter, was walking along the tracks to get to the station after finishing his shift. He probably got too close to the tracks and a regional train hit him, leaving him no escape route.

(Online Union)

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