The unconfirmed information that the experienced driver of the passenger train which collided with the commercial one in Tempe, he called his colleague to find out where the commercial train waswas conveyed by the vice-president of the Panhellenic Union of TRAINOSE Employees, Thomas Hachamis.

The 59-year-old train driver Giorgos Koutsoumbas, from Amaliada, who lost his life, he probably suspected what was going onbut the journey was too short and he didn’t have time to react.

“He must have suspected”

As he said, in the First Program, Mr. Hahamis citing unconfirmed information: “It has been assumed and I heard it from colleagues, that the particular train driver called another colleague and asked him if he was in the shop upstairs, because he knew that the shop was coming but he didn’t he knew where he was.

Because commercials always have delays and the other confirmed that it’s not him. Something like that was said, which means that because the late Koutsoubas had the experience, I think he probably suspected, but he didn’t make it because it was 12 minutes, the route was too short.”

“I think there was no braking”

Mr. Hahamis, when asked if there is a possibility that one of the two train drivers tried to prevent the fatal accident, even just before the accident, emphasized: “In my opinion, I think not, there was no braking.”

Explaining why he reaches this conclusion, Mr. Hahamis: “At night when two trains meet, you cannot see if you are on one line or the other. You only see this when you get close to five meters.

I believe they didn’t even see it, because one was coming out of a gallery and the other the same, i.e. from a tunnel, one from the highway, because the highway passes over there and on the other side is the tunnel you come from the station of Rapsani, which is the big tunnel, 4 kilometers.

Well, there’s no way they saw each other because there’s a twist there too. At some point they must have seen each other in seconds, which they didn’t have time to do anything at all.”