(22 Dec 2005) ***TRUE DATE CREATED = 21/12/2005***



1. Wide shot train on top of another train at railway station
2. Wrecked carriages
3. Firefighters
4. Civil defence officers at crash site
5. Close-up damaged carriage
6. SOUNDBITE (Italian): Alberto Verna, Deputy Commissioner for Railway Police:
"Those seriously injured are around ten, we have ten red codes in various hospitals of the area while the others have been moved to Rome. Then around 45 people are, what we call green and yellow code, that is less seriously injured".
7. Wrecked carriages
8. Police in front of wrecked carriage
9. SOUNBDITE (Italian): Alberto Verna, Deputy Commissioner for Railway Police:
"Let's say that, considering the situation, we were lucky because one train was not still, so the impact was not that of a train against a wall but the train crashed onto another which was already moving and this let the shorter and lighter train to slip onto the other one".
10. Various of wrecked carriages
11. SOUNDBITE (Italian): Anna Maria (full name not given), eyewitness:
"I saw people seriously injured, there was a lot of blood, their faces wounded, their backs also. I saw those people in really serious conditions, people were really injured".
15. Civil defence officers looking at crashed trains
16. Empty stretcher
17. Various of ambulance in front of railway station

STORYLINE:

A passenger train rammed into another at a station south of Rome on Tuesday, injuring about 50 people - ten seriously, officials said.

The crash happened at the Roccasecca station. A train heading from Rome to Campobasso slammed into a stationary train travelling from Rome to Cassino, a spokesman for the Trenitalia train company said.

Roccasecca is about 130 kilometres (80 miles) south of Rome.

One of the trains piled up on top of the other, temporarily trapping some passengers under the twisted metal, the spokesman said.

Alberto Verna, the Deputy Commissioner for Railway Police told AP Television News that things could have been much worse.

"We were lucky because one train was not still, so the impact was not that of a train against a wall but the train crashed onto another which was already moving and this let the shorter and lighter train to slip onto the other one", he said.

Verna said ten people were in a serious condition and had been taken to hospitals around the area and Rome. He said 45 others had been injured lightly.

Anna Maria, a young woman from Roccasecca, witnessed the immediate aftermath of the crash.

"I saw people seriously injured, there was a lot of blood, their faces wounded, their backs also. I saw those people in really serious conditions" she said.

Among the most seriously injured was an eight year-old girl who was flown to San Camillo hospital in Rome with life-threatening injuries. She had been travelling with her parents and brother, who were taken to hospitals closer to the crash site.

The cause of the collision was under investigation.

Though most train accidents in Italy are minor, the country has occasionally seen deadly incidents. The most recent was in January, when a passenger train and a freight train collided head-on in northern Italy, killing 17 people.

Intesaconsumatori, a grouping of consumer organisations in Italy, released a statement later on Tuesday calling for an upgrade of the country's rail network, which it said was plagued by "obsolete" structures that facilitated accidents. It also said industry leaders should resign.

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