Everything seems to indicate that train crash happened in San Miguel for a little over a month, which caused four deaths and 116 wounded, was a tragedy foretold. So estimated Justice which began investigating the alleged role of officials from national and provincial governments.
Recent surveys conducted in the San Martín railroad cars had determined that flats recovered corroded and bumper welding method, indicating that the formation N ° 3443 UGOFE company was not able to protect the impact on passengers, serious deficiencies in its structure.
of the administration headed by Daniel Scioli gobernadorbonaerense Ferrobaires depends on the company, which owns the locomotive left the tracks with the system brakes partially annulled.
While the objections to national government officials are based on the lack of control of the National Commission for Transport Regulation (CNRT) to UGOFE company, led by San Martín railroad, which allowed circulate formations serious flaws in its construction and materials unable to withstand a shock like that caused the tragedy in San Miguel.
The complaint had been filed by the deputy national DC in federal court in San Martin and began to be discussed by Judge Juan Manuel Yalj.
In reviewing Ferrobaires locomotive, experts determined that the drivers were unable to stop the training before an emergency, as was the fact find a convoy stopped on the tracks, because the brake system had been partially annulled.
This is in addition to the San Martín railroad cars had the bumper ground running and recovered by the method of electric welding. This means that the system had to absorb the impact violence of any training received was not prepared for a shock like that happened in San Miguel.
Feb. 16, four passengers in the convoy were killed and 116 wounded when a Ferrobaires Locomotive Company, who came out of retirement due to Junin, hit railroad training San Martín.
Machine No. 9076 boarded the last car of the formation of the UGOFE that according to expert assessments, failed to absorb the violence because it had serious deficiencies in the bumper and the floor had corroded, causing the displacement body toward the two cars following, identified as U3624 and U3539, which traveled the four people killed and most of the 116 injured passengers.
"It seems that the causes of car setup U3624 on U3539 car would have been due to the shell, for cracks and / or deficiencies in material, gave way causing the center pin frame of the bogie, it appears literally the same, leaving the body free to move away, allowing paid within the U3539 ", the report submitted by the expert before the federal judge Yalj.
" In other words, if the shell had not given freeing the central pivot of frame of the bogie, both cars had not been assembled, receiving and force of impact absorbing bumpers. However, it should be noted that the bumpers were not apparently in good condition having been recovered by the method electric welding, "added the experts who signed the technical study, incorporated in the record between 106 and 135 folios.
The complaint that Congressman Moran appeared before the federal judge Yalj, the lawmaker accused the minister of provincial infrastructure, Cristina Alvarez Rodriguez, the Transportation Secretary's Office, Juan Pablo Schiavi, the former head of that department Ricardo Jaime, and Eduardo Gnarini, who served as administrator of Ferrobaires at the time the tragedy occurred.
As stated in the introduction, the legislature requested an investigation into the responsibility of the accused by alleged violation of the commission and public official duties.
"Both the national and provincial government are primarily responsible for the lack of infrastructure maintenance and rail service and lack of control", had expressed the legislature in its complaint.
Test Measures ordered by the Moran played in Yalj arraignment is a series of surveys on the state of the wagons of the train formation of San Martín.
"This will indicate if a clash of these features alone produces such damage or, in fact, were a direct result of the state of the cars and trains, "said Moran.
These surveys and concluded that if the cars had been in good condition, would have absorbed the violence of the impact.
CONCLUSIONS - U3624 Car (UGOFE): here some of the victims were traveling. His bumper plates cut the stem height. This should be the recovered welding method. The floor of the car was totally damaged and corroded.
- Car U3539 (UGOFE): here also traveled several victims. According to surveys, the drawers which house the tubes were cracked bumper. Both dishes of the fenders were cut at the stems.
- Car FU2570 (UGOFE): is the van that was struck by the locomotive Ferrobaires. The sheet has a thickness of 1.5 mm, when according to the manufacturer's manual should be of 3.175 mm.
- Locomotive 9076 (Ferrobaires) pedal deadman annulled by nails, tools disconnected odometers and speedometers, emergency brake valve on the side of assistant wired bundle.
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