In Gronówek in Toruń County, a collision occurred at an unguarded railway crossing. According to police findings, a car “drove straight in front of an oncoming train”. Three people were injured. One of them was transported to hospital by an LPR helicopter. We first received information about this incident on Kontakt 24.
Intercity train number IC5602 from Olsztyn to Wrocław hit a passenger car at an unguarded crossing in Gronówko (Toruń district). The Kontakt 24 editorial team, in a conversation with the City Police Headquarters in Toruń, established that the services received the report just after 3:30 p.m.
– Initial findings by police officers who are still working on the scene indicate that the driver of an Opel drove onto an unguarded railway crossing directly in front of an oncoming Olsztyn-Wrocław train. As a result of this incident, three people – the driver and passengers of the passenger car – were transported to hospital. The driver and the driver were sober – informed Asp. Dominika Bocian, press officer of the Municipal Police Headquarters in Toruń, after 6 p.m.
The policewoman added that one of the injured people was transported to hospital by LPR helicopter.
There were three people travelling by car and 490 people by train.
Spokeswoman PKP Polish Railway Lines Ruslana Krzemińska informed that people travelling by train to Toruń changed to another train, and those travelling further had to wait for the second locomotive to be put in place. First, it was necessary to secure the damaged bumper in the locomotive involved in the accident and take it to Toruń. A second locomotive has already been put in its place and the train will go towards Wrocław.
Main image source: KM PSP Toruń/Brig. Piotr Wypych