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New incident with train and crane, in Cartagena; six injured. And the explanations for the “chaos” in the first tragedy.
In one week, four train accidents: Spain was the stage for new railway accident.
This Thursday, a train collided with a crane em Cartagena, in the Murcia region. Six people were injured. All slightly injured.
The passenger train collided with a construction crane in this area of southeastern Spain: “The train did not tip over or derail,” announced a spokesperson for the emergency services in the Murcia region.
It is the fourth accident since Sunday. On Tuesday, an accident near Barcelona and injured 37 people. On the same day, due to bad weather, a train derailed in Lloret de Mar, but there were no injuries.
But the most serious accident was the first, in , which caused at least 45 deaths.
In the “reconstruction of chaos”, as described by , the two trains left between 6:10 pm and 6:40 pm local time. The first from Atocha towards Huelva had 186 passengers, the second from Málaga towards Madrid with 300 people.
At 7:43 p.m., the last three carriages of the second train derailed at the entrance to Adamuz station and occupied the opposite lanewhere the first train came from.
The impact was almost immediate. They just passed 9 seconds between derailment and collision.
The two trains traveled approximately 200 kilometers per hour.
After this impact, the first train, which was heading to Huelva, derailed and the first two carriages continued bank below, in a 4 meter drop.
The two trains were almost 1 km from each other.
Arose marks on the wheels of one of the trains. More precisely in bogiesor bogies, the parts of the train that control the wheels. Similar marks were also seen on trains that passed through the accident site immediately before.
And one was found bogiein a stream, about 250 metros do local of the collision.
In other words, the railway itself could have some defect or be in bad conditions.
Óscar Puente, Minister of Transport, however commented that “it is not easy to draw a conclusion based on a single piece of evidence” and believes that “it would be very risky to say that the marks automatically indicate a defect in the infrastructure”.
But he admitted: “It’s a undeniable possibility. But I cannot establish this criterion because not even the technicians responsible for the investigation are doing so.”
“We are facing a problem that we have never seen before”, commented Minister Óscar Puente.
