Posted on 12/08/2022 7:30:34 AM PST by BenLurkin
Local media reported that the trains had been travelling in the same direction and collided while one was parked at the station.
Catalan police are investigating how the incident occurred.
The crash happened at the Montcada i Reixac - Manresa station, about 12km (7 miles) from the city centre.
Emergency services official Joan Carles Gomez told reporters at the scene that 155 people had been injured in the collision, with 14 passengers transferred to a local medical centre for further treatment.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Hopefully nobody dies.
Somebody messed with the signals or the engineer was asleep...............
I would opt for Spanish fly over Spanish train.
Just kidding,
Self driving tractor trailer units will be safe and effective. /s
Reminded of an old Chris DeBurgh song:
“There’s a Spanish train that runs between
Guadalquivir and old Seville
And at dead of night the whistle blows
And people hear she’s running still
And then they hush their children back to sleep
Lock the doors, upstairs they creep
For it is said that the souls of the dead
Fill that train ten thousand deep...”
Oh, dear. I hope all the injured people make a full recovery.
bttt
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