Railway accident in Spain causes 14 injuries

The collision between a train and a freight locomotive this Sunday at a halt in the province of Tarragona, northeast of Spaindue to the fact that the latter skipped a traffic light, caused 14 injuries of varying degrees, official sources informed EFE.

The accident, according to the railway operator Adif, occurred at the station of Vilaseca when an isolated locomotive, which did not pull wagons, of the company captrain, “the signal has been skipped” which was “at stop indication” for reasons that are now under investigation.

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Although Adif had initially attributed the head-on collision between the passenger train and the locomotive to a fault in the latter’s brakes, the aforementioned sources have subsequently specified that this possibility “It is one more hypothesis” of the causes of the accident.

“It is not known why the locomotive has skipped the traffic light, and that is what now needs to be investigated”, These sources have told EFE, who have specified that, in addition to the investigation that Adif and the Captrain company will open ex officio, another will be opened by the so-called Railway Accident Investigation Commission, a collegiate body dependent on the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda.

The accident has caused conventional gauge rail traffic to be suspended from Reus to the south of Catalonia and Levante, which affects above all, according to these sources, medium-distance trains.

Video of the train accident in Vilaseca that left 30 ferries, two greus. The freight locomotive is owned by FGC, but the license to operate and the drivers are from Captrain. The 2 companies are part of the Cargometro company. pic.twitter.com/ZhIVPvlye8

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Renfefor its part, has specified that fifty passengers were traveling on the regional train and that, given that rail traffic is interrupted in several sections, the company is managing an alternative coach service to guarantee the mobility of the affected lines.

After the collision, Civil Protection has activated the emergency plan for passenger transport by rail, and various relief agencies have moved twelve crews, including a unit from the Special Actions Group (GRAE), which have evacuated passengers and have Checked all the cars.

The Medical Emergency System (SEM) has also moved five units to the scene of the accident, which have treated around twenty passengers, of whom 14 have suffered minor injuries and four of them have been transferred to the Santa Tecla Hospital in Tarragona .

This is the second rail accident that has occurred in Catalonia, northeastern Spain, in less than a month, after the one that occurred on May 16 when a freight convoy and a passenger train collided in Sant Boi (Barcelona), which it caused the death of one of the drivers and injuries of varying degrees to 86 passengers.

Source: Elcomercio

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