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Commission members commented causes and consequences of the accident, a passenger
In priamure continue to investigate the accident passenger train № 326 Neryungri-Khabarovsk, 12 June, in which eighteen kilometers from Shimanovska descended from the rails. His comments specifically to correspondents "RG" give members of the commission to investigate the CHP.

Vladimir Yakunin,
President of OAO "CFR":
-- Advance the cause of the accident is to change the normal state of the road, linked to sharp increases in air temperature. 12 June in the Amur region had a 30 - degree heat. Summer temperatures are even higher, but besstykovochnye rails (the so-called "velvet path") at the office Svobodnenskom Zabaykalskoy Railway were laid about five years ago and so far without any serious accidents. Incidentally, major maintenance at the site where the CHP, made last autumn. It is possible that work has been conducted with violations, but has recently surveyed the site two commissions and did not express any claims.

Oleg Safonov,
Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far East Federal District:
-- All passengers affected trains Neryungri-Khabarovsk receive compensation insurance.
Payment for compulsory insurance will amount to 12 thousand rubles. And except for compulsory insurance if they were still voluntary, the amount will rise to 250 thousand rubles.

Nikolai Prilipko,
Head of main department MOE Russia on the Amur region:
-- On track deformation knew. Even temporarily reduced the speed of trains passing on the site to 60 kilometers per hour. But after checking master allowed here at a speed of movement 90 kilometres per hour.
Generally, railway accident were absolutely not ready. The first news of the catastrophe we have received from passengers who simply phoned in to rescue. The evacuation of people engaged staff Shimanovskoy fire. It helped the local authorities. Quickly taking the bus, helped accommodate passengers. Even when an additional train was assembled, about forty minutes railway could not understand who should give the command to his administration.

By the way
Two days later, on June 14, Priamure occurred in another similar cars. At the railway station between villages Varvarovka Ekaterinoslavka with rails and left eight cars with coal. Restore ways succeeded only through the night.
Prepared Konstantin Pronyakin, Eugene Basenko, Pavel Koshelenko.