CEO Tibor Bolla told Magyar Nemzet that the internal inquiry had to be stopped because police detectives visited the company Tuesday morning, seized “everything” and questioned several officials.

Budapest Police also impounded the train that caused the accident as well as all traffic documents, Magyar Nemzet reports. This may suggest that the dispatchers and not a technical defect or the driver caused the accident, the newspaper adds.

According to initial data from the “black boxes” of the two trains involved, the rear vehicle was moving at 50 kilometres per hour when the driver began to slow down 300 metres from the Pillangó utca station. The driver then applied the emergency brake 200 metres from the station. The train was moving at 4-5 kilometres per hour with stationary wheels when it bumped into the stationary train.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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