Audio Reveals Exchanges Between Control Centre and Drivers Before Deadly Spain Train Crash
Recordings show a control centre cleared a train to continue despite a stalled service ahead, as investigators probe a crash that killed at least 68 people.
- Leaked audio reveals a control center in Madrid instructed a train to proceed before colliding with another on Wednesday, killing at least 68 people. The crash on the Madrid-to-Seville route marks one of Europe's worst rail disasters.
- Recordings published by Pais and RTVE show a control center operator ordered a Renfe train to "continue your journey" at normal speed, despite an Iryo train being stalled some 25km ahead at Urda.
- Iryo said its train, carrying 147 passengers, was "struck from behind" by a Renfe train with 397 passengers. Emergency personnel have been deployed to the site as Spain begins three days of national mourning.
- Spain's transport minister Puente said on Wednesday the decision to allow trains to move without speed restrictions was "inexplicable". Prime Minister Pedro said the "whole of Spain is grieving" as officials investigate.
- Railway Drivers are expected to proceed with a planned strike on Thursday, with the Spanish Union stating it is "in defence of railway safety". This follows other serious rail disasters in Spain this year.
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'Resume at Normal Speed': Chilling Order Given To Train Driver Before Deadly Spain Rail Crash
Audio recordings have revealed how a railway controller authorised a Renfe train to resume normal running despite a stationary Iryo passenger service ahead, in the minutes before a collision that killed at least 69 people in Spain. The crash occurred near Urda, in Spain's Toledo province, on 28 October, when a high-speed train operated by state-owned Renfe struck the rear of a stationary Iryo service on the Madrid-Seville line. Both trains were …
Several judges consulted by OKDIARIO see a crime in the leaking of the audios of the Adif operator and the train drivers involved in the Urda accident that has left at least 69 dead. The offence of the official or authority that reveals secrets or information known to him by his office or office and that should not be disclosed, as set out in article 417 of the Criminal Code and that is punishable by up to three years' imprisonment or five years…
The experts consulted point to system failures beyond the error made by the operator who gave instructions from Atocha
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«Unconnect and reconnect the LZB and resume march, under the protection of the BSL with normal march... And sign it Martin». It had only been a few hours since the tragic...
The unions of the railway sector have expressed their strong condemnation of the leaking of the audios between the control center of Adif in Atocha and the maquinists of the convoys of AVE and Iryo injured in Urda (Toledo).The general secretary of the Spanish Trade Union of Railway Machinists (Semaf), Diego Martín, has labeled "alarming and irresponsible" that they again leak to the press audio contents with biased information without being able…
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