One year on, Czech Police are continuing to investigate the major crash that took place last year on April 1st on Masná. The crash involved a collision between an empty tram and a full trolleybus, and left 43 people injured, causing CZK 2.5 million of damage. Photos: HZS JmK. (Read more in our previous article: “Huge Accident at Masná, Heavy Delays for Many Public Transport Lines”)
Brno, Apr 1 (BD) – According to police spokesman Pavel Šváb, the cause of the crash was a technical fault with the trolleybus, a conclusion reached by expert investigators following examination of all the evidence: “They confirmed the findings from examination of the accident site and the crashed trolleybus itself. There was a technical problem that prevented control of the trolleybus, but at the moment we cannot specify exactly what the problem was.”
[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”236″ gal_title=”Accident at Masná”]The findings confirm the initial theory of the investigation immediately following the crash last year, and refute rumours at the time that the trolleybus was swerving to avoid pedestrians.
