The only survivor of the first train car from the tragic Tempi train collision is set to return home after nearly a year in a specialized rehabilitation center in Boston. According to local newspaper TheNewspaper.gr, Gerasimos, the 22-year-old student, has been in a deep coma since the accident.
The site reports that despite extensive care and treatment in the U.S., doctors have been unable to wake the student from a coma. His condition remains stable but unchanged. Thus his family and doctors have decided to transfer him to a recovery center in Larissa, Greece, where he will continue receiving treatment and support.
In a television interview on STAR, Gerasimos’s mother described the past year as a “titanic battle” for her son. She stated that despite multiple surgeries, his prognosis remains poor, and expressed anger over the crash. “The only punishment for those who are at fault is to put themselves in our place,” she said, “Not in the place of those who passed, in the place of those who remained. I still can’t face the picture of the two train cars at an upright angle.”
The Tempi train collision accident was caused by a head-on crash of two trains in the final hours of Feb. 23, 2023, at the south end of the Tempi gorge in north-central Greece. It remains the deadliest rail accident in the country. Large portions of the public accuse the Greek government of a cover-up and lack of accountability.
