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Posted on 09/03/2025 1:40:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
At least fifteen people are dead and 18 more injured after Lisbon's famous Gloria Funicular derailed on Wednesday evening.
The tragedy occurred after one of the cables came loose along the railway's route, causing it to lose control and career down a steep hill before colliding with a building at around 6pm.
Footage from the site showed the tram-like funicular, which carries people up and down a hillside in the Portuguese capital, practically destroyed and emergency workers pulling people out of the wreckage.
Portugal Police have now confirmed the number of fatalities has reached 'at least 15' following earlier reports that suggested the accident claimed the lives of three.
Foreigners are among the dead, according to Portugal's National Institute of Medical Emergencies.
Witness Teresa d'Avo told Portuguese TV channel SIC: 'It crashed into a building with brutal force and fell apart like a cardboard box. It crashed with tremendous force. It didn't have any kind of brakes.'
Speaking to Observador Teresa then explained how she had been next to the Glória elevator with a colleague when 'the elevator that was further down, almost parking, suffered a small jolt'.
'The people inside were obviously scared, and we rushed to help. Soon after, we saw the elevator upstairs was out of control, without brakes, and we all started running away because we thought it was going to hit the one below.
'But it fell around the bend and crashed into the building,' she added.
An official from Portugal's National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) has confirmed that among the 18 injured, five are serious and 13 are minor.
They added that a three-year-old child has been left wounded following the accident, but is not in serious condition.
Officials are yet to say if any British or Irish nationals are among the fatalities...
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“Funiculi! Funicula!” Scary stuff.
Tram maintenance, what’s that?
Happened in Italy not too many years ago.
Careen.
causing it to lose control and career down a steep hill
Do they mean careen?
No, “career” is the correct word here.
Uh . . . no.
Look it up.
Who put those cables up?
Somebody who could read Portuguese?
Terrible for all involved.
Just seeing that happen would be traumatic.
It’s kind of a blighted looking area.
Tramatic.
“”No, “career” is the correct word here.“”
_________
You must be very very old, then.
Old enough to use a dictionary.
Good, now look up archaic.
It sounds rickety, and the alley is covered in graffitti....https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/8f/Lissabon_Elevador_da_Gloria.webm/Lissabon_Elevador_da_Gloria.webm.720p.vp9.webm
You didn’t look up “career”, did you? If you had, you’d have seen that it was the correct word for the article writer to have used, and not an archaic usage either.
Who doesn’t love Public Transportation?
Your Gov’t loves you....
I believe ‘funicular’ is Britspeak for what we call a cable car.
Careen and Career
Some people might be confused by the warning to not confuse careen and career, because the most common sense of career (”a profession”) is not much like any of the meanings of careen. But when employed as a verb, career does have some semantic overlap with careen; both words may be used to mean “to go at top speed especially in a headlong manner.”
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