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Specualtion is the driver has passed out or become incapacitated in some way:
VALENCIA, Spain - A train that derailed and killed 41 people in Spain's worst subway accident was traveling at twice the normal speed, a government official said Tuesday.
The train's excessive speed has led officials to believe the driver had either fainted or become otherwise indisposed prior Monday's accident, said Jose Ramon Garcia Anton, Valencia's regional transport minister.
The train was traveling at 50 mph, rather than the average of 25 mph at the curved section where it derailed, Garcia Anton said.
He said neither the train nor the tracks had suffered any kind of mechanical failure before the derailment, denying initial reports that a wheel on the train had broken.
Authorities ruled out terrorism as the cause, but the accident brought back memories of the 2004 bombings of Madrid commuter trains that killed 191 people. Rescue workers hustled bloodied, sooty survivors from the tunnel.
The accident occurred shortly after 1 p.m. as many people packed subway trains to head home for lunch. It was the second accident on Valencia's No. 1 line in less than a year. A September collision involving three trains injured at least 30 people, four of them seriously.
If it was terrorism, do you think our Patriarchy would ever tell us?
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Green Energy
Spanish Subway Train Going Twice Normal Speed
Specualtion is the driver has passed out or become incapacitated in some way:
VALENCIA, Spain - A train that derailed and killed 41 people in Spain's worst subway accident was traveling at twice the normal speed, a government official said Tuesday.
The train's excessive speed has led officials to believe the driver had either fainted or become otherwise indisposed prior Monday's accident, said Jose Ramon Garcia Anton, Valencia's regional transport minister.
The train was traveling at 50 mph, rather than the average of 25 mph at the curved section where it derailed, Garcia Anton said.
He said neither the train nor the tracks had suffered any kind of mechanical failure before the derailment, denying initial reports that a wheel on the train had broken.
Authorities ruled out terrorism as the cause, but the accident brought back memories of the 2004 bombings of Madrid commuter trains that killed 191 people. Rescue workers hustled bloodied, sooty survivors from the tunnel.
The accident occurred shortly after 1 p.m. as many people packed subway trains to head home for lunch. It was the second accident on Valencia's No. 1 line in less than a year. A September collision involving three trains injured at least 30 people, four of them seriously.
If it was terrorism, do you think our Patriarchy would ever tell us?
- French High-speed Train Catches Fire, Crashes Near Strasbourg, 5 Dead, "cause Unknown"
Nothing To Do With Islam From RT: Five people have been killed as a train derailed and caught fire in Eckwersheim near Strasbourg in France, AFP reported. Rescue teams are working at the site. A high-speed TGV train derailed in Eckwersheim in...
- Ntsb: Amtrak Assistant Conductor Heard Engineer Say Train Struck By “something”
AND THERE'S ALSO THIS: NBCNews video: Passenger on Amtrak Locomotive Says His Train Was Also Struck by Object A passenger traveling along the same route the night that Amtrak Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia told NBC News that an object hit his...
- Trouble With Trains
UPDATED AGAIN AT BOTTOM OF POST As we all know, a subway train derailed in Chicago today. It was blamed on Operator error. Well, this afternoon, two trains collided in Boston. It seems doubtful to me that this is some kind of coordinated terrorist attack,...
- Train Derailment In London
Hmm? (From the London Telegraph): Passengers feared they had been caught up in a terrorist attack when the westbound Central line train derailed between Mile End and Bethnal Green in east London yesterday morning. About 900 commuters - many covered...
- It Happened At Jesus Station...
Last Sunday, a car driver ploughed through Berlin's World Cup pedestrian "fan mile" and injured 26 people. Only because of the fact that there had been no matches on Sunday so that the festival was relatively empty and a miracle nobody was killed....