Train Driver Convicted Over Spain’s Worst Crash In Decades That Killed 79. Killed 79.
In Spain’s worst rail accident in decades, an eight-carriage, high-speed Alvia 04155 train veered off the track on a sharp bend near the northwestern city of Santiago de Compostela, slammed into a concrete wall and burst into flames. total of 143 other people were injured in the 2013 accident.
As reported by Reuters on Friday, July 26, presiding judge Elena Fernandez Curras said two elements caused the train to slip, namely the driver’s attention was disrupted when he received the call, and there was no safety system if the driver did not comply with the speed limit.
The defendants and insurance companies ADIF and Renfe were sentenced to pay compensation of 25 million euros (27.14 million US dollars) to the victims in a civil trial.
After the accident, ADIF identified more than 300 points in the Spanish railway network requiring rapidity changes.
