Spain high-speed train crashes near Santiago de Compostela

J. L. Gamallo. When summer comes, and if there was a great drought, the news that the news are usually open fires spread throughout Spain, without excluding the Balearics and the Canaries. A wave of fatal fire spreads throughout the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal does not escape this disaster. But this summer that seemed to last the month of July without good fire that carried the news, when the 24th, the eve of the feast of St. James, patron of Spain and Galicia day considerable alarm: a train alvia who came to Santiago, due to speeding, spectacularly derailed on a curve, jumping the cars through the air, and catching fire others. A video camera installed in the path allowed us to see with a sharpness that causes astonishment, the fatal accident.

The death toll is around hundred, now being identified and numerous injuries. It seems that the failure was caused by human error, the driver slowed not complicated in that stretch, though automatic braking systems seem to work out. At the moment the driver is arrested, but admitted to a hospital, duly guarded by the National Police. The train was going at 190 km / h when it should go to 80 km / h. All day events Galicia were suspended, and politicians, both local and national promptly came to the scene to witness the disaster. The President of the Xunta, with great emotion, he told reporters the accident circumstances. And now the victims are, well, better family members who have lost a husband, a wife, about parents, about children, about friends. For which begins a painful existential drama, for which there were prepared or imagined could happen. About 80 have lost their lives excuse for a human error that seems incredible to happen. The locals are turned in every possible help to the fire and emergency services, carrying water and blankets, and lending his aid in the evacuation of the wounded and dead.