In Spain two more trains derail, a train driver dead and at least 15 injured near Barcelona

New train accident in Spain. Atrain of line 4 of the Catalan regional railways (Rodalies) is crashed into a wall of containment on the track between Gelida and Sant Sadurní d’Anoia (Barcelona). In the clash the The convoy’s engineer died e at least 15 people were injured, three of them in serious condition. This was reported by the Civil Protection of the Catalan Generalitat. The budget is still provisional.

The collapse of the retaining wall

A retaining wall would have collapsed as the train passed, perhaps due to, this is a first hypothesis, the heavy rains that have hit Catalonia in the last few hours.

The rescue

There are around fifteen ambulances and eleven fire brigade teams at the scene of the accident. The emergency number 112 received 28 calls.

The second train accident

Tuesday evening there was a second train accident in Catalonia: a train derailed after colliding with a rock that fell onto the track also due to a storm. This second Catalan accident was recorded on the R1 line of ‘Rodalies’, between Maçanet Massanes and Tordera (Barcelona). According to Efe sources, the train in the accident was carrying ten passengers and no injuries were reported.

The derailment in Andalusia

The new train accidents follow by just two days the derailment that occurred last Sunday in Andalusia.

It rose to The number of victims was 41 in the accident of two trains in Adamuz, Cordoba. The investigators reported it. There are still 39 injured people hospitalized, of which 13, one of them a minor, in intensive care.

Three days of national mourning

From today the Spain observe three days of national mourning for the 40 people who died in the most serious one train accident since 2013on the ad line high speed in Andalusia. “This is a day of pain for all of Spain, for all of our country,” the prime minister said Pedro Sanchez to journalists during a visit to Adamuz yesterday, declaring three days of national mourning. “We will find the answer and, once the cause of this tragedy has been ascertained, we will present it with absolute transparency”, assured the socialist prime minister.

Sunday evening, a train from the railway company Thattraveling from Malaga to Madrid, derailed near Adamuzin the southern region of Andalusia. The train crossed the other track, colliding with an oncoming train, which also derailed.

Unlike the 2013 accident, Sunday’s derailment occurred on a straight section of track and the trains were traveling within the speed limits. L’human error was “virtually ruled out”, as was speeding, making the accident “extremely strange”.

The cause is hypothesized to be related to Iryo rolling stock oh one infrastructure problem. Spain boasts the largest Europe’s high-speed rail networkwith over 3,000 kilometers of dedicated tracks.