Scânteia train accident

The 2009 Romanian bus-train collision (), happened on 14 August 2009 at 14:10pm in Romania. A bus and train hit each other on a level crossing. Forteen people were killed. It happened in Scânteia of Iaşi County in Romania on County Road 248C  It was originally thought that only 10 people died in the accident. This was the worst accident in Romania in the past fifteen years.

 Accident 
The accident happened when a minibus carrying 16 passengers was moving across a level crossing. The minibus was hit by a train as it was crossing the level crossing near Scânteia. Everyone that was killed in the accident was on the bus, which included a child. Two other people were badly injured. The bus was hit in the center of it and was pushed a total of 350 meters by the train  The reason why the crash happened in the first place was because the bus driver did not follow the light signals or signs at the level crossing.

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2009 bus-train collision

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