The guy who was responsible for the design of the rails should be held accountable for all these deaths. I've read an article about how this accident happened and I just could not believe what I was reading.
Re: Spain train derailment
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:00 pm
by Love
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thats dumb ... unless there is reason to believe he purposely neglected safety.
Re: Spain train derailment
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:02 pm
by DarkJackal
heroo wrote:The guy who was responsible for the design of the rails should be held accountable for all these deaths. I've read an article about how this accident happened and I just could not believe what I was reading.
Like wat
Re: Spain train derailment
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:15 pm
by Ganja
heroo wrote:The guy who was responsible for the design of the rails should be held accountable for all these deaths. I've read an article about how this accident happened and I just could not believe what I was reading.
Yeah, I'm sure it had nothing to do with how fast the train was traveling. It was all about the tracks...
Re: Spain train derailment
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 8:16 pm
by *BlackFox
The vid of that crash is horrifying.
Police took the driver of a Spanish train into custody in hospital on Thursday after at least 80 people died when it derailed and caught fire in a dramatic accident which an official source said was caused by excessive speed.
The eight-carriage high velocity train came off the tracks just outside the pilgrimage center of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain on Wednesday night. It was one of Europe's worst rail disasters.
The source had knowledge of the official investigation into a crash which brought misery to Santiago on Thursday, the day when it should have celebrated one of Europe's biggest Christian festivals. Authorities canceled festivities as the city went into mourning.
The Galicia region supreme court said in a statement that the judge investigating the accident had ordered police to put the driver in custody and take a statement from him. He was under formal investigation, the court said.
Ofcourse the train driver is responsible too, but the accident happened on a piece of track that used to be part of an older track. It was built for max speeds of 80 km/h, while the track the train was driving on was made for highspeed trains of 200 km/h +. All the trains had to rapidly slow from 200 km/h to 80 km/h just for that piece of track. In the past years there were multiple situations where an accident like this almost happened. The only reason they kept that piece of track is because they didn't want to buy more people out of their homes to built a new piece of track in it's place. An old, low-speed, piece of track placed in a turn in a highspeed (200 km/h) track and people didn't expect this kind of things would happen? A BIG engineering faillure if you ask me.
Re: Spain train derailment
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 4:12 am
by BuDo
I'd like to know why the train was going so fast....That's the real reason for the crash...
Re: Spain train derailment
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:07 am
by [SD]Master_Wong
heroo wrote:Ofcourse the train driver is responsible too, but the accident happened on a piece of track that used to be part of an older track. It was built for max speeds of 80 km/h, while the track the train was driving on was made for highspeed trains of 200 km/h +. All the trains had to rapidly slow from 200 km/h to 80 km/h just for that piece of track. In the past years there were multiple situations where an accident like this almost happened. The only reason they kept that piece of track is because they didn't want to buy more people out of their homes to built a new piece of track in it's place. An old, low-speed, piece of track placed in a turn in a highspeed (200 km/h) track and people didn't expect this kind of things would happen? A BIG engineering faillure if you ask me.
rapidly slowing...thats a pathetic excuse if you know you need to slow down you should do it with enough time to do it safely, sure it might be cheap on the authorities side too but they are not to blame even in the slightest the driver would have known about this and thus should have taken steps to safely reduce speed ahead of time.
Re: Spain train derailment
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:35 pm
by *BlackFox
+1 ^ Anyway... It certainly looks like "speed" was a major factor!
Re: Spain train derailment
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:37 pm
by Miguez
The driver made a mistake. I'm sure it wasn't intentional, but it was, in fact, his fault.
He had been running that same route for 2 years I believe, and he knew he had to slow down there.
For some reason he did not slow down, and the train crashed because of it. The driver must feel pretty awful and guilty, and I believe that's enough of a punishment, but according to the law he did commit murder by negligence.
Re: Spain train derailment
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2013 6:10 pm
by *BlackFox
A big mistake! Well, the driver "admitted" to going way over the speed limit.
Re: Spain train derailment
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 6:41 pm
by TheDrop
apparently this guy got charged for 90 counts of homicide? notsureifforeal
Re: Spain train derailment
Posted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 7:05 pm
by *BlackFox
TheDrop wrote:apparently this guy got charged for 90 counts of homicide? notsureifforeal
Well.. 79 counts of homicide!
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain — The driver of a Spanish train that derailed at high speed killing 79 people was provisionally charged Sunday with multiple cases of negligent homicide.
A court statement said investigative magistrate Luis Alaez released Francisco Jose Garzon Amo without bail. The statement said Garzon must appear in court once a week and is forbidden to leave Spain without permission.
Garzon was not sent to jail or required to post bail because none of the parties involved felt there was a risk of him fleeing or attempting to destroy evidence, the statement said.
It said the train driver’s license had also been withdrawn