High-Speed Train Collision In Spain Leaves 68 Dead And More Than 100 Injured

BGUK_3726743 - Emergency and paramedic staff as well as Injured people who were passengers of the two high speed trains crashing this morning, after a supposed human mistaken the Control Center who took command of the line when the informatic safety service failed in a 69 kilometres section of the line Madrid-Andaluc’a. Against all safety protocols, upon Transport minister Oscar Puente explained, a High Speed train AVE of RENFE was ordered by the Control Center to go on his way with normality when there was a red light and a High Speed of IRIO was stopped in the same railway around 25 kilometres ahead, crashing against it. From the near 600 passengers of the two trains, there are 68 casualties counted so far, 40 from the IRIO train, and more than a hundred injured people, mainly transferred to the hospitals of Toledo and Alcazar de San Juan. This is the second serious accident of the Spanish high speed railways in less than a year and under the term of office of Minister Oscar Puente.