Train workers pay respects to crash victims

All locomotives in Poland will sound their horns for three minutes at noon, Friday, in memory of the 16 who died in the train crash in the south of the country last Saturday night.


At around the same time the first funeral of one of the railway workers who died in the crash will begin.

The sounding of horns “is the traditional way to pay homage to victims,” says Krzysztof Ciećka from the trade union of train drivers.

Trains sounded their horns in a similar way after 67 people died in a crash in 1980 near Torun, central Poland.

More than 30 people are still being treated in hospitals following the crash last Saturday.

District Prosecutor's Office is leading the investigation into the incident after two trains collided head on in Szczekociny near Zawiercie, Silesia.