The 2017 Adendro train derailment occurred on 13 May 2017 when an intercity passenger train derailed and collided with a house in

Adendro Adendro ( el, Άδενδρο, before 1927: Κιρτζιλάρ - ''Kirtzilar'') is a village in the municipality of Chalkidona, Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece. History It was the site of a serious railway accident on 13 May 2017 in which thre ...

, Greece. Three people were killed and ten were injured. A preliminary report stated that the cause of the accident was excessive speed.

Accident

The accident happened when a passenger train derailed and collided with a house in

, a village in the municipality of

Chalkidona Chalkidona ( gr, Χαλκηδόνα) is a municipality in the Thessaloniki regional unit, Greece. The seat of the municipality is Koufalia. The town is a hub for trucking traffic around the Thessaloniki area. Municipality The municipality Chalki ...

, Thessaloniki region,

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. Three people were killed and ten more were injured when five carriages of the train derailed. The engine and one carriage collided with a house alongside the track. Two residents of the house jumped from a balcony before the collision occurred. The house was severely damaged. The derailed train was a Class 520

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. It was operating

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service IC 58 from

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, carrying five crew and 73 passengers. The derailment occurred at 21:45

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(18:45 UTC) at a site from Adendro railway station. The train had departed from Athens at 16:18. There were four people fatally injured in the accident. Those killed were two traincrew, including the driver, and a passenger. Following the accident, the line through Adendro was expected to remain closed until 27 May.

Investigation

TrainOSE opened an investigation into the accident. The Greek Transport Ministry also opened an investigation. According to preliminary findings, the

train event recorder A train event recorder – also called On-Train Monitoring Recorder (OTMR), On-Train Data Recorder (OTDR), Event Recorder System (ERS), Event Recorder Unit (ERU), or simply Event Recorder (ER) – is a device that records data about the operatio ...

revealed that excessive speed was the cause of the derailment. The train was travelling at where the speed limit was . The three-member Commission of Experts that made the finding stated that there was no evidence of sabotage and that the local track controllers had followed proper procedures.

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Accident

Investigation

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