Spanish high-speed lines again stained with blood
At least 68 people have lost their lives in a new train collision on the Madrid-Seville line. Consulted experts raise: “If the mistake of a single man is allowed to cause dozens of victims, is it a failure of the man or of the system?
A Spanish expert in railway accident investigation and several train drivers have questioned whether a single person's mistake or a systemic failure is to blame for recent train crashes. Two high-speed train accidents have occurred in Spain in the past nine months on the Madrid-Sevilla line, resulting in a total of 114 fatalities.
The first accident, in Adamuz, Córdoba, killed 46 people in January, while the second, near Urda, Toledo, has claimed 68 lives. The government has warned that the second accident may have worse consequences than the first.
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