https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/rss/308703/feed The Santiago de Compostela train crash took place on 24 July 2013, when a high-speed train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol in the north-west of Spain left its tracks at high speed on a curve, four kilometres outside Santiago de Compostela in Galicia. Of the 222 people onboard around 140 were injured and 78 were killed. The train's data recorder registered a driver's statement that the train was travelling at over twice the posted speed limit of 80km/h when it entered a bend in the line. The... en https://assets-v2.i-scmp.com/production/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg More than 150 people were slightly injured on Wednesday when one train ran into the back of another at a station near Barcelona, authorities and Spain’s Renfe rail operator said. The SEM regional emergency services said the train had been moving very slowly when the collision occurred just before 8am with most people suffering bumps and bruises. “There was a collision between two trains at 7.50am at the Montcada I Reixac-Manresa station, on the line heading in to Barcelona, that’s to say one... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3202429/barcelona-train-collision-least-150-injured?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/europe/article/3202429/barcelona-train-collision-least-150-injured?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Dec 2022 11:12:01 +0000 Spain said on Friday it is reviewing its railway network to boost safety after a train derailed last month killing 79 people, the country’s deadliest train disaster in decades. “Everything is under review and subject to proposals for improvement,” Public Works Minister Ana Pastor told a parliamentary panel about the July 24 crash. The eight carriage train was hurtling around a bend at 179 kph, more than twice the speed limit, when it flew off the tracks near the northwestern city of Santiago de... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1295646/spain-reviews-rail-safety-after-deadly-crash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1295646/spain-reviews-rail-safety-after-deadly-crash?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:08:15 +0000 A Spanish train was hurtling around a curve at 179km/h, more than twice the speed limit, when it leapt off the tracks in a disaster that killed 79 people, a report on the contents of the "black box" recorders show. The train driver was on the telephone to the on-board conductor and stopped speaking just 11 seconds before the July 24 derailment near the northwestern city of Santiago de Compostela, said a report released yesterday. The driver, 52-year-old Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, has been... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1294087/black-box-data-confirms-spanish-train-was-running-far-too-fast?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1294087/black-box-data-confirms-spanish-train-was-running-far-too-fast?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 02 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000 The driver of the train that derailed in northwestern Spain last week, killing 79 people, was talking on the phone with state train operator Renfe at the time of the accident, a court said on Tuesday after analysing the train’s data recording devices. The initial reading of the so-called black boxes said driver Francisco Garzon received a call from Renfe minutes before the accident to discuss the path to Ferrol, the final destination for the high-speed train that departed from Madrid on... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1293261/spanish-train-driver-talking-phone-time-crash?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1293261/spanish-train-driver-talking-phone-time-crash?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:35:53 +0000 Spain was to hold a memorial service on Monday for the 79 people who died in the country’s worst rail disaster in decades, hours after the driver of the train was freed pending trial on charges of reckless homicide. The ceremony takes place at 7pm in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, a world-famous pilgrimage city in northwestern Spain where the high-speed train derailed. Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, several ministers and the King’s children Prince Felipe and Infanta Elena will... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1292773/spain-mourn-train-crash-victims?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1292773/spain-mourn-train-crash-victims?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Jul 2013 07:45:46 +0000 The driver of a Spanish high-speed train that derailed and killed 79 people was released pending trial on charges of reckless homicide, a judge ruled on Sunday night. Francisco Garzon, 52, had been under arrest since Thursday. He is suspected of driving the train too fast through a tight curve on the outskirts of the northwestern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela. Examining Magistrate Luis Alaez formally charged Garzon with “79 counts of homicide and numerous offences of bodily harm, all of... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1292735/driver-derailed-spanish-train-charged-79-counts-homicide?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1292735/driver-derailed-spanish-train-charged-79-counts-homicide?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 29 Jul 2013 00:22:14 +0000 The driver of a train that hurtled off the rails killing 78 people in Spain faced possible charges as doctors worked on Saturday to identify the last three victims of the country’s worst rail disaster in decades. As Spain mourned, the city of Santiago de Compostela where the crash struck prepared a funeral for Monday in its cathedral, a destination for Catholic pilgrims from around the world. Police have accused the driver, identified by media as Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, 52, of “recklessness”... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1292112/driver-spain-train-disaster-faces-charges-country-mourns?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1292112/driver-spain-train-disaster-faces-charges-country-mourns?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Jul 2013 09:34:12 +0000 By all accounts, the train was going way too fast as it curled around a gentle bend. Then in an instant, one car tumbled off the track, followed by the rest of the locomotive, which seemed to come apart like a zipper being pulled. The derailment sent pieces of the sleek train ploughing across the ground in a ghastly jumble of smashed metal, dirt and smoke. But two days after Spain suffered its deadliest rail disaster in decades — which killed 80 people and maimed scores of others — one question... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1291293/probe-deadly-spain-crash-focuses-train-speed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1291293/probe-deadly-spain-crash-focuses-train-speed?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Jul 2013 08:34:35 +0000 Spanish police have detained the driver of a speeding train that crashed in the nation's deadliest rail disaster in decades, accusing him of criminal recklessness. The country was in mourning after Wednesday's tragedy, which police said left 78 dead, including foreigners, and many more injured. The 52-year-old driver faces criminal accusations including "recklessness" over the crash near the pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela, said Jaime Iglesias, police chief in the northwestern Galicia... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1291081/spanish-train-crash-driver-under-police-guard-hospital?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1291081/spanish-train-crash-driver-under-police-guard-hospital?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Jul 2013 02:11:37 +0000 Near a bend in the track on the outskirts of the Spanish pilgrimage city of Santiago de Compostela lie the twisted, gutted shells of the train carriages. One is rammed into a concrete siding, another snapped like a branch over the top of a third. Bits of twisted metal from a fourth are scattered nearby. The train flew off the tracks as it reportedly tore at twice the speed limit around the bend in northwest Spain. At least 78 passengers were killed in the nation's deadliest rail disaster in... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1290673/spain-mourning-after-galicia-rail-disaster-claims-78-lives?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1290673/spain-mourning-after-galicia-rail-disaster-claims-78-lives?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000 Police took the driver of a Spanish train into custody in hospital on Thursday after at least 80 people died when it derailed and caught fire in a dramatic accident which an official source said was caused by excessive speed. The eight-carriage high velocity train came off the tracks just outside the pilgrimage centre of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain on Wednesday night. It was one of Europe’s worst rail disasters. Video: Footage captured by a security camera shows the speeding... https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1290145/least-20-killed-train-derails-spain?utm_source=rss_feed https://www-scmp-com.libproxy1.nus.edu.sg/news/world/article/1290145/least-20-killed-train-derails-spain?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 24 Jul 2013 21:10:27 +0000