Level crossing

With the rail industry relying on longer and longer trains to cut costs, the Biden administration is handing out $570 million in grants to help eliminate many railroad crossings in 32 states.

A 16-year-old is being treated in hospital for serious head injuries after being hit by a train in central Athens late on Friday.

The incident occurred on the Proastiakos (suburban) line between Rouf and Tavros stations, at the intersection with Mithymnis Street.

A fast train collided with a truck at an unguarded railway crossing at Oreshets Station, the Ministry of Interior announced. The signal for the serious traffic accident was given at 13.35 p.m. on telephone number 112.

The fast train № 2602 from Varna to Sofia derailed in the section between Levski and Pordim after a motorist made an attempt to go though railway level crossing when it was closed and crashed into the first carriage of the train.

Serbia, Albania and Romania have closed many of their border crossings in order to combat the spread of the coronavirus, leaving some parts of the Balkans practically cut off for civil traffic.

All countries of the region have either banned entry or introduced special restrictive measures for passengers arriving from countries with mid to high to risk of coronavirus.

A new rail crossing safety seminar is to be taught at Greek schools after getting the green light from the Education Ministry. 

The program, which has so far been voluntarily presented to 20,000 pupils in 120 schools, was developed by three engineers at state-controlled railway company OSE following two accidents in Larissa, central Greece, in 2017 that killed two underage children. 

A woman motorist was killed on Saturday when her car collided with a train near the city of Trikala in central Greece. 

Fire service workers removed the woman's body from the wreck of her vehicle following the collision on the level crossing at Pyrgetos. No personal details were made public. 

Two people were killed on Saturday when the car they were in crashed with an oncoming train as it attempted to pass through an unmanned level crossing in a rural part of Imathia in northern Greece.

According to local news site Verianet.gr, the driver of the car was a 54-year-old local resident, while his passenger was a 74-year-old woman.

Three Bulgarians were killed after a freight train hit their car at a railway crossing in Spain. They have worked temporarily in the country, reported Spanish media El Pais, quoted by Nova TV.

The car was passing through a barrier-free crossing. There was a traffic light that worked according to the words of the mayor of the town of Fontanar, where the incident happened.

At least four young men were killed and two others seriously injured in a collision of a car and freight train on a railway crossing in Turkey's eastern Mu? province late Aug. 1, authorities said. 

According to police officials, there were six passengers in the car, which collided with a freight train when it approached a railway crossing in Hasköy district's town of Düzk??la.