Spain Train Crash Impact Speed up to 200 Km/h, Preliminary Report Suggests
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This is said by a preliminary report on the disaster in which 69 people died: four times the speed required by the security protocols
On Wednesday in Urda, Spain, an AVE train from Renfe hit an Iryo train, causing 69 deaths and 108 injuries. A breakdown of the security system and a human error are involved. This tragedy, the second in ten months on the...
The high-speed train that crashed into the back of a stationary train near Urda, Spain, on Wednesday was presumably traveling at 160 to 200 kilometers per hour. This is reported by Spanish media, including El País, based on an initial investigation report by the research agency AITAT. The black boxes are expected to determine the exact speed.
Iryo's CEO reported in the Senate that his trains took "a long time" to reconnect after the LZB system fell.
Spain train crash impact speed up to 200 km/h, preliminary report suggests
The Renfe high-speed train that crashed into the back of a stationary Iryo service in Spain's Toledo province was traveling at an estimated 160 to 200 kilometers per hour at impact, according to the first preliminary report into the incident.
AITAT places the origin of the accident in a succession of faults and instructions and warns that the necessary mitigating barriers did not act
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