(ANSA) - A judicial enquiry has been opened into a train crash south of Rome on Tuesday that left 60 travellers injured, 11 of them seriously.
Prosecutors from the town of Cassino have begun investigations to establish who was to blame for the incident in which a local train smashed into the back of a stationary intercity waiting to leave the platform.
The crash happened at 15.20 at the station of Roccasecca, near Frosinone, about 80 km southeast of the capital.
The incoming train hit the waiting one at about 120 km/h and its first carriage rose into the air, landing on top of the last two carriages of the other.
As a result of the impact, several passengers were flung out of the arriving train and landed on nearby tracks. An eight-year-old girl, who was in a coma Wednesday, was reportedly among them. All those injured in the crash, including those described as being in a serious condition, were said to be stationary the morning after the collision.
They were in hospitals in Rome, Frosinone, Cassino and other nearby towns.
Fire fighters were still at the scene on Wednesday morning and the stretch of track - which is on a key line running from the capital to Campobasso - remained closed. Prosecutors briefly questioned the two drivers of the moving train and officials at the station late on Tuesday.
They are trying to discover whether the stop signals which should have halted the local train before it entered the station were ignored or did not work properly. The drivers reportedly said they saw a green signal while station staff insisted that the opposite was true.
