Train Derailment in Spain Leaves Dozens Dead

[maenads_dance]

The Spanish newspaper El País paints a bloody picture of the scene of a train derailment in Santiago de Compostela, Spain today

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[lied_ohne_worte]

Those poor people. Online newspapers here have the deaths up to 78 now, and who knows how far it will go up... The images remind me of the Eschede disaster fifteen years ago.

[bbmaniac]

79 in fact. I travel in a train like that for 2 hours every day to go to Madrid.

[yeats]

oh jesus, you must be so shaken. i was in spain in january, and the rail system really impressed me. it's awful that something like this could happen. i'm so glad you're okay.

[tabaqui]

Oh, that's just terrible and so sad. These poor people.

[linda_lupos]

I read somewhere that the train was going *twice the speed it was allowed* on that particular track (it was going 180 km per hour where it was allowed 90). That's just insane.

And just before a big holiday, too. :(

[rhysande]

CNN has CCTV footage of the crash:

http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/25/world/europe/spain-train-crash/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

[ginger_maya]

Here's a youtube link too.

Anyone willing to watch, be warned, it's a terrifying sight, even if you can't see any bodies.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Eek, I'll dream of that, I think (not blaming you, you gave fair warning).