Leading vehicle derails on the JR Sotobo line No information about injured Chiba Kamogawa May 8 20:07
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On the evening of the 8th, the first train of the train derailed on the JR Sotobo Line in Kamogawa City, Chiba Prefecture. According to the police and JR, no one was injured in this accident.
According to the JR East Chiba branch office, the leading car of an ordinary 6-car train derailed between Abo Tianjin Station and Awa Kamogawa Station on the JR Sotobo Line, which runs in Kamogawa City, Chiba Prefecture, before 4:00 pm on the 8th. .
According to the police and JR, there were 16 passengers including 13 passengers and 3 crew members, but no one was injured due to this accident.
The leading car of the train derailed to the left in the direction of travel and the car was tilted, and depending on the people living near the site, a loud sound of "key" was heard just before the derailment.
In response to this accident, the Transportation Safety Commission will dispatch two accident investigators to the site to investigate the cause of the derailment in detail.
"I thought it was an earthquake"
A man in his 50s running a restaurant about 20 meters from the derailment site in Kamogawa City said, `` After hearing the sound of the brakes, there was a rustling sound of a train called'Zazazaza 'and I was wondering if it was an earthquake at first. When I went outside and saw the situation, the leading car was leaning to the left toward the direction of travel.While the wheel derailed from the rail by about 1 meter, it did not roll over and passengers guided it. I was going down. "
"Prospect of resuming the operation will not stand."
According to the JR East Chiba Branch, after the accident, the JR Sotobo Line decided to suspend driving between Abo Kamogawa Station and Awa Kominato Station all day on the 8th.
Operation resumed between Katsuura Station and Awakominato Station.
And depends on the JR East, the field conservation instruction towards the investigation of the cause of the accident by the Transportation Safety Board is issued in, that it can not enter the recovery work, is that the prospect of resuming the operation is not set.