日本火车出轨，71人遇难_报刊文摘
71 killed in japan train derailment
amagasaki, japan - the death toll jumped to 71 tuesday as crews pulled more victims from the wreckage of japan’s deadliest in decades. investigators focused on whether excessive speed or the driver’s inexperience caused the train to derail and slam into a building.
the seven-car commuter train carrying 580 passengers left the rails monday morning near amagasaki, a suburb of osaka about 250 miles west of tokyo. it hit an automobile and then a nine-story apartment complex. more than 440 people were injured.
rescuers working under floodlights pulled out a conscious but seriously injured 46-year-old woman then reached a 19-year-old man passenger, also in serious condition. but most of the work was grim as crews pulled 14 more bodies from the twisted rail carriages, pushing the death toll from 57 to 71.
two of the five derailed cars were shoved inside and flattened against the wall of the building’s first-floor parking garage.
officials said no cause had been ruled out but added that investigators suspected speed and the driver’s less than a year on the job.
that echoed comments from passengers who speculated the driver might have been speeding to make up for time lost when he overshot the previous station by 25 feet and had to back up. the train was nearly two minutes behind schedule, media reports said.
"there are very few train accidents in japan in which a train has flipped just because it was going too fast. there might have been several conditions at work — speed, winds, poor train maintenance or aging rails," kazuhiko nagase, a train expert who is a professor at the kanazawa institute of technology, told nhk.
murakami said investigators also found evidence of rocks on the tracks, but hadn’t determined whether that contributed to the crash.
deadly train accidents are rare in japan, which is home to one of the world’s most complex, efficient and heavily traveled rail networks. monday’s crash was the worst since 161 people died in a three-train crash in 1963 at tsurumi, outside tokyo.
辅助阅读：本周一，日本发生了进几十年来最严重的一次火车出轨撞毁事故。随着车站工作人员从火车残骸中发现越来越多的遇难者，到本周二为止，死亡人数已达71人。目前调查人员集中精力调查，是否是过速行驶或驾驶员经验不足引起火车出轨撞到建筑物上。
amagasaki, japan - the death toll jumped to 71 tuesday as crews pulled more victims from the wreckage of japan’s deadliest in decades. investigators focused on whether excessive speed or the driver’s inexperience caused the train to derail and slam into a building.
the seven-car commuter train carrying 580 passengers left the rails monday morning near amagasaki, a suburb of osaka about 250 miles west of tokyo. it hit an automobile and then a nine-story apartment complex. more than 440 people were injured.
rescuers working under floodlights pulled out a conscious but seriously injured 46-year-old woman then reached a 19-year-old man passenger, also in serious condition. but most of the work was grim as crews pulled 14 more bodies from the twisted rail carriages, pushing the death toll from 57 to 71.
two of the five derailed cars were shoved inside and flattened against the wall of the building’s first-floor parking garage.
officials said no cause had been ruled out but added that investigators suspected speed and the driver’s less than a year on the job.
that echoed comments from passengers who speculated the driver might have been speeding to make up for time lost when he overshot the previous station by 25 feet and had to back up. the train was nearly two minutes behind schedule, media reports said.
"there are very few train accidents in japan in which a train has flipped just because it was going too fast. there might have been several conditions at work — speed, winds, poor train maintenance or aging rails," kazuhiko nagase, a train expert who is a professor at the kanazawa institute of technology, told nhk.
murakami said investigators also found evidence of rocks on the tracks, but hadn’t determined whether that contributed to the crash.
deadly train accidents are rare in japan, which is home to one of the world’s most complex, efficient and heavily traveled rail networks. monday’s crash was the worst since 161 people died in a three-train crash in 1963 at tsurumi, outside tokyo.
辅助阅读：本周一，日本发生了进几十年来最严重的一次火车出轨撞毁事故。随着车站工作人员从火车残骸中发现越来越多的遇难者，到本周二为止，死亡人数已达71人。目前调查人员集中精力调查，是否是过速行驶或驾驶员经验不足引起火车出轨撞到建筑物上。