Spanish Train Disaster Came After Train Ordered to Go in Error: Minister
Transport Minister Óscar Puente confirmed 544 passengers were aboard the trains during this second major high-speed rail disaster for the national network this year.
- Two trains collided near Madrid on Wednesday morning, killing at least 68 people and injuring 58, according to emergency services in one of Europe's deadliest rail disasters this century.
- Spanish Transport Minister Óscar Puente said an official in the national railway control center in Madrid 'inexplicably' instructed one high-speed train to proceed along a track where another had stalled.
- Despite the January Adamuz accident that killed 46 people, Puente defended the system, stating, 'We have a safe rail system, comparable to those of other countries in our region.'
- Far-Right Vox leader Santiago Abascal slammed the government, writing, 'I will not rest until this government, which is a criminal organization, is in the dock answering for its crimes.'
- An anonymous Socialist Party lawmaker said the tragedy 'inevitably upends the campaign and deals a blow to Sánchez,' noting the opposition will leverage it as they did the Adamuz accident.
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Spain Says Crash Likely Caused by Bad Instructions
Spain's transport chief says a deadly rail collision near Toledo seems to trace back to a baffling human error. Transportation Minister Óscar Puente on Thursday ugly out a preliminary timeline of the crash, saying a computer failure shut down an automatic safety system along a 39-mile stretch, forcing six trains...
Two high-speed trains collided on Wednesday morning. At least 68 people were killed in the crash. One of the trains had been wrongly given permission to continue, Transport Minister Óscar Puente said at a press conference. Images show that rescue operations are still in full swing.
At least 68 passengers died in the collision between two TGVs on the same track, in Urda, near Toledo, this Wednesday. In January, 46 people had died in another accident involving two convoys on high-speed lines.
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