At least 39 people have died in a train collision in southern Spain and dozens more have been injured in the country’s worst rail crash in more than a decade, Spain’s Civil Guard has said.
Carriages on a Madrid-bound train derailed and crossed over to the opposite tracks, colliding with an oncoming train in Adamuz on Sunday evening.
Four hundred passengers and staff were onboard both trains, the rail networks said. Emergency services treated 122 people, with 43, including four children, still in hospital. Of those, 12 adults and one child are in intensive care.
Extremely tragic, though it should be pointed out that Spain and Europe in general has far, far less traffic-related deaths, even in terms of individual automobiles let alone the much safer rail-based mode of transportation.
Interesting read: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/10/traffic-fatalities-are-a-choice
Officials calling it weird and strange… bring out the tinfoil hats
It’s looking like a broken fishplate, which passed inspection just a few months ago. That is rather strange.
This stretch of track was recently renovated, a few months ago. I’m betting on a botched renovation. The government really doesn’t want this to be the case.
Yes and the transport minister also mentioned the train carriages that derailed were inspected just days before
And it was a really new train… Less than 4 years old. Let’s see what’s the final cause in this one.
