Two people are dead and 23 are
injured after a train smashed into a lorry that was on the
tracks overnight at a level crossing at Caluso, in the province
of Turin.
The 61-year-old driver of the train and the 64-year-old
Romanian driver of a van that was escorting the truck, which was
carrying an oversized load, were killed.
Among the injured is the train's conductor, a woman, who is
fighting for her life.
The 39-year-old Lithuanian driver of the truck has been put
under investigation for allegedly causing a rail disaster.
"There was a roar and then the disaster," eye witnesses said.
Prosecutors are looking into communications between the
Trenitalia rail company and the operators of the oversized load
lorry.
The load, two huge funnels, was travelling from the Czech
Republic with Lithuanian plates to historic construction firn
Bitux in Foglizzo neat Turin.
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