Guangzhou Railway： The Chenzhou collision accident was caused by the brake failure of the inbound train.

Topic: A train collision occurred in Chenzhou, Hunan.

Casualties:　Three people died. More than 60 people were injured.

Rolling express:　K9017 collided with K9063　 Minister of Railways went to the scene. Upward resumption of traffic　Beijing-Guangzhou railway has not been interrupted.

　　　　　　　　　　 Witness: the locomotive rushed into the house Nearly a thousand police officers maintain order.

Video broadcast：On-site rescue　Reporter connection　The fifth car of K9017 was transferred. Live photo collection

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Firefighters rescued a little boy from the accident train. Photo courtesy of Changsha Evening News

　　At 2: 34 yesterday, a loud noise broke the silence of the night sky at Chenzhou Railway Station in the center of Chenzhou. People who are seeing off at the station platform witnessed a thrilling scene. Less than 20 meters away from the exit of the railway station, the K9017 train that flew by bumped into the K9063 train that had just started to leave the station. The brake failure of train K9017 was the main cause of the accident.

　　-Rescue

　　Excavation of collapsed houses with bare hands

　　The front of the K9017 train directly rushed into a house near the railway, which led to the collapse of the house and four people were trapped in the ruins of the house.

　　Fire officers and soldiers used hydraulic expander, crowbar and other tools to open some space, risking their lives, and rescued four people trapped under the rubble by unarmed excavation, one of whom was killed.

　　Seven or eight small shops near the railway side were almost razed to the ground, and cigarette cases, wine bottles, kettles and slippers were scattered everywhere in the rubble. The proprietress and son of the grocery store surnamed Li slept in the store yesterday. After the accident, both mother and son were buried under the rubble and were rescued by rescuers at 5 o’clock in the morning.

　　Uncover the iron sheet on the child.

　　The special squadron of Chenzhou Fire Brigade in Hunan Province is responsible for the rescue of the derailed fourth car. At that time, the car had been severely deformed, and 11 passengers were still trapped in the car. The most serious thing was that an injured child was stuck in the car.

　　Fire officers and soldiers first use hydraulic jacks, hydraulic props and other tools to open a passage in the deformed carriage. Fire fighters entered the carriage, climbed to the nearest place to the stuck child, and found that the child was stuck to death and needed to be rescued with tools such as hydraulic tongs. As the child has been injured, the fire fighters called for a nurse to give the child an intravenous drip, and at the same time, they carried out rescue work and chatted with the child to comfort the frightened child.

　　At 5 o’clock yesterday, after more than an hour of hard work, the iron sheet stuck on the child was finally opened and the child was taken to the hospital for treatment.

　　College students are seriously injured in saving lives.

　　At 17 o’clock yesterday, in front of the intensive care unit of the Fourth People’s Hospital of Chenzhou City, a middle-aged couple waited anxiously. Their son, a student of Changsha University, was sitting in car No.4 of K9017 at the time of the incident. Xiao Liang, a friend traveling with him, said that the boy was "seriously injured to save a strange girl".

　　Xiao Liang said that they were originally in the same carriage and sat very close. When the carriage turned to the left, the boy jumped in the other direction, and there was a girl who was about to fall heavily. The rescued girl has been bandaged and can be discharged from the hospital.

　　-Measures

　　Chenzhou station refunded the ticket in full.

　　The accident affected the traffic order of Beijing-Guangzhou line, and some trains were delayed. The Chenzhou Municipal Government urgently mobilized 100 buses to assist the railway departments in diverting passengers.

　　Affected by the accident, some trains in the south direction of Beijing-Guangzhou line and a few trains in the north direction of Beijing-Guangzhou line are affected to varying degrees. The railway department is actively doing a good job in restoring train operation order and passenger service. Please pay attention to the station announcement for specific trains.

　　"Due to the accident, this station will not sell tickets for the time being." At every ticket window of Chenzhou Railway Station, similar notices were basically posted at noon yesterday. At the ticket window, many passengers lined up for full refund.

　　According to the introduction of Chenzhou Railway Station, passengers who return tickets must first bring their train tickets to the information desk for inspection and stamp, and then get them back at the ticket window.

　　According to the station’s estimate, there were about four or five thousand passengers who refunded tickets yesterday.

　　-Investigation

　　K9017 brake failure

　　The Ministry of Railways and Guangzhou Railway Group dispatched special personnel to formally set up an accident investigation team to investigate the cause of the accident. Yesterday morning, Guangzhou Railway Group held a press conference to introduce the cause of the accident. The group said that the braking failure of the K9017 train was the main cause of the accident.

　　According to a railway worker who was on the scene at the time of the incident, the K9017 train should have stopped at the station when it entered the station, but somehow the train didn’t stop in time, but rushed directly to the K9063 train, which had just started to leave the station. Because of the fast speed at that time, the K9017 train derailed and crashed into the K9063 train.

　　According to the passengers on the K9017 train, most of the passengers who took the No.2 car in the direction of the locomotive got off at Chenzhou Station. They found that after the train entered the station, the speed was still very fast and there was no sign of stopping. Passengers are very puzzled. They just stopped temporarily at Xujiadong Station in front for half an hour. Why don’t they stop at Chenzhou Station now? Suddenly, the train stopped after a strong vibration and got out of the carriage. Everyone was shocked: the carriage in front was derailed.