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Santiago de Compostela train crash

Santiago de Compostela train crash
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 crash was Spain's worst rail disaster in nearly 70 years, since the Torre del Bierzo crash in 1944.
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Spanish train collision, about 150 injured

One train ran into the back of another stationary train at Montcada station, about 10km north of Barcelona. It was moving slowly and most people suffered bumps and bruises, emergency services said.

Spain orders review of rail safety after deadly crash

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Update | Spanish train driver 'talking on phone' at time of crash

The driver of the train that derailed in northern 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 after analysing the train’s data recording device.

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