The crash, which killed 69 people, highlights critical failures in Spain's railway control and signaling systems, prompting urgent investigations into how human error and technical issues combined to cause the disaster.
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Audio appears to point the finger at the control centre, but there are also questions around signalling and technical issuesAt least 69 people died when a high-speed train from Madrid to Seville hit another train on the same track from behind near Toledo on Wednesday morning.Both trains had been brought to a halt earlier when the signalling system failed. The driver of the state-owned Spanish train, a Renfe AVE service, was told by controllers to restart the journey, but crashed into the train in front, run by the private operator Iryo. The front carriages of the AVE train and rear of the Iryo train were destroyed and others derailed. Continue reading...
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