CONEGLIANO (TREVISO) – Train hits a van stolen on the railway line between Conegliano and Vittorio Veneto: traffic interrupted for several hours. The accident occurred around 6.30am today, June 22nd. The regional train that was traveling along the Belluno – Conegliano railway line, heading south, having reached kilometer 8 of the railway line, in the Scomigo area, hit the rear part of a Fiat Iveco van which had remained half stationary On Tracks. Once hit, the heavy vehicle is finished in the escarpment next to the railway. The firefighters, the carabinieri, the railway police and railway technicians intervened on site. The train was carrying about forty passengers, all remained unharmed and the train driver was also not injured. Train circulation has been suspended on the stretch between Vittorio Veneto and Conegliano for checks on the line. There is considerable inconvenience for commuters and tourists.
It gets stuck in the middle of the tracks, it was a stolen van
The police, having arrived on site, started the initial investigations and ascertained that the van had been stolen yesterday, June 21st, from afarm and had been used overnight for steal 15 bicycles from the shop Crazy Sports of Vittorio Veneto. According to the first reconstruction, the criminals, during their escape, took a dirt road, broke through the fence of the tracks and reached another vehicle where they moved the stolen goods. A few minutes in which, however, the van remained stuck on the tracks and was abandoned there. The train that passed shortly after hit him. When the military and firefighters found and opened the vehicle that ended up in the embankment, they Only two bicycles were found which, probably, were not transferred due to lack of time. The two cycles will be returned to the owner of the Vittorio Veneto shop from which they were stolen. Investigations continue to put a face to the thieves.
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