Overview
- A line 9 Tramlink derailed at Porta Venezia on Friday afternoon, striking a building and leaving two dead with roughly 50 people affected, including several seriously injured.
- Video and eyewitness accounts indicate the tram accelerated, skipped a stop and veered left without visible braking before the impact.
- Investigators say the turnout was set to the left from a prior passage and the line 9 driver did not issue the command to continue straight, contributing to the derailment.
- Prosecutors opened an inquiry for involuntary manslaughter and injuries, seizing the tram’s black box and the driver’s smartphone as onboard footage, toxicology and clinical tests proceed.
- Performance of the dead‑man and vigilance systems is under technical scrutiny, and transport unions have requested urgent talks with ATM for clarifications.