High-speed trains collide after one derails in southern Spain, killing at least 20
https://apnews.com/article/spain-highspeed-train-crash-1cc76cbe8320f46e82f87062b4b8d0e4
https://apnews.com/article/spain-highspeed-train-crash-1cc76cbe8320f46e82f87062b4b8d0e4
13 Comments
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 38 pts · 206d
And this only a little time after entering private companies in the business in Spain.
pipe01@programming.dev · 8 pts · 206d
I wouldn't say 5 years is a little time...
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 11 pts · 206d
Iryo has been operating that line only since December 2024.
BlackVenom@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 205d
For rail, 5 years is little.
BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 205d
Similar story in greece
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempi_train_crash
rollin@piefed.social · 29 pts · 206d
oh wow that's a serious crash. At first it sounded like a case of a train going too fast at a corner but apparently not:
Article doesn't mention how fast the trains were going but they can go at up to 300 km/h, depending on the track, and this being a straight section of a route to Madrid, 200 km/h would seem a conservative estimate. It also doesn't say if both trains were high speed - but in any case a head-on collision between 2 trains at these kinds of speeds is going to be catastrophic.
absquatulate@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 206d
AGAIN? Holy crap, if this wasn't sabotage then heads need to roll in that ministry
bufalo1973@piefed.social · 7 pts · 206d
It was a private train, not Renfe.
absquatulate@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 205d
True, but it looks like it may have been a railway issue on that (recently renovated) sector.
mjr@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 205d
Even then, why the ministry and not the infrastructure company?
thedarkfly@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 206d
Looks like it's not the first derailment of the Frecciarossa 1000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frecciarossa_1000?wprov=sfla1
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 206d
Yeesh... Talk about a never event
Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 206d
Russian sabotage?