The Szolnok Police Department is conducting an investigation against an unknown suspect due to the well-founded suspicion of a crime against traffic safety, after unknown persons placed a shopping cart on the tracks. The train had to apply emergency brakes.
The train braked
On April 11, 2024, at 9:14 p.m., the driver of the railway locomotive traveling between the Szolnok and Újszász stations noticed a shopping cart in the track axle, so he immediately applied the emergency brake. In connection with the incident, there were no personal injuries, neither the train nor the track was damaged. You can get the latest news from the Budapest and Surroundings news portal by clicking here! More than 254,000 people follow us on Facebook.
They are looking for witnesses
The staff of the Szolnok Police Department ask that anyone who has information about the crime contact the Szolnok Police Department in person, or call the number 06-56-501-600, or report anonymously to the 24-hour Telephone Witness 06-80-555 – on the toll-free number 111 or the toll-free emergency number 112.
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He was swept away by the train
On August 16, 2020, the police of the 17th district were called to the Rákoshegy railway station in the morning after a passenger train swept away a shopping cart on the tracks. While gathering information, another train passed by the patrols, which also hit something; later it turned out that this time there was a plastic bin on the tracks.
It was caught on video
When police went around the scene, they found two young boys in the woods, who said they had placed the trash can and the shopping cart on the tracks in order to film the collisions.
The wrecked shopping cart in Rákoshegy
Source: police.hu
Adolescent boys
The 14-year-old and 15-year-old boys also admitted that they had put a shopping cart in front of trains three days earlier, which they also made a video of. You can get the latest news from the Budapest and Surroundings news portal by clicking here! More than 254,000 people follow us on Facebook.
They are being charged
The suspected perpetrators were arrested by the police and then interrogated as suspects for a crime against traffic safety. The investigators from the cancer center carried out the necessary procedural actions and handed over the case documents to the competent prosecutor’s office.
Featured image: the shopping cart destroyed in the Rákoshegy accident – Source: police.hu
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