Tempe survivor tells MPs he still sees disaster as ‘bad dream’

Many of the survivors of the February 2023 Tempe railway collision still need psychiatric help so that they sleep at night, a survivor has told the parliamentary inquiry into the disaster.

"Maybe I still haven't realized what has really happened. I still see it as a bad dream. I just woke up with bruises, burns and an injury to my right knee," Andreas Alikaniotis, a 22-year-old student at the Macedonian Merchant Navy School, told MPs.

Alikaniotis, who saved 10 or 12 of fellow passengers after the February 28, 2023, collision, said that many survivors have still not recovered mentally or physically.

"I have met sufferers who have told me that they still need psychiatric help to feel well and sleep at night," he said.

On the question of whom he considers responsible for the collision, he said it was "certainly not one or two people, nor a simple human...