The Polish public prosecutor’s office announced today that a signalman may be found to have been at fault in the railway disaster that killed 16 people that occurred shortly before 9 pm on Saturday in the Polish city of Szczekociny. The man has not yet heard the charges as he’s currently too mentally distraught to take part in the proceedings. The 57-year old signalman has years of experience on his position and the accident took place shortly after he began his shift. “The evidence shows that his conduct resulted in not switching the devices in a such a way that would have put the train on the right track,” claimed the public prosecutor Tomasz Ozimek. Saturday’s disaster was the biggest in Poland to have taken place in the past twenty years. The Polish President has declared a two-day period of national mourning on Sunday.
