The European Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating an alleged fraud in the high-speed works following the Urda accident
The UCO goes to Adif, the Court of Auditors and the State Railway Safety Agency to require documentation
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The UCO goes to Adif, the Court of Auditors and the State Railway Safety Agency to require documentation
Hitachi Rail staff supervised the signage team at Renfe workshops in Madrid
The government is in 'shock' over an accident that is placed in the worst possible political scenario in the electoral arena; Sánchez is currently in trust in Puente. Feijóo adopts an institutional tone with a PP very against it, while the Broad Front calls for political responsibilities and Vox points to Sánchez
The investigations focus on the inrelated orders from the control centre of Adif to the AVE and Iryo in distress, for the resumption of the march with the LZB security system fallen and with 35 years in operation, and the latter's inability to start before the collision
Antonio Jiménez Barca, a journalist at EL PAIS, was at the AVE cafeteria at the time he hit the Iryo. Relates the first moments of chaos
The country has access to the communications audios between the drivers of the damaged trains and the coordination centre of Atocha, which ordered them "normal march"
At least 68 people have lost their lives in a new train collision on the Madrid- Sevilla line. Experts asked: "If one man's error is allowed to cause dozens of victims, is it a man's or system's fault?"
The identification of the bodies focuses on the Forensic Anatomic Institute of Toledo while the relatives provide data in the commanders to locate close relatives
The railway traffic on the morning of this Wednesday, which has left at least 68 dead and 77 injured, has required heavy machinery to lift the two cars of the Iryo that have derailed after suffering an attack of an Ave when they covered the route Madrid- Sevilla
The audios show the error of the Atocha manager. The Iryo driver warned five minutes from the tragedy that he was in detention and could not start the train. And no one stopped the AVE
The noise of the clash between the wagons remains in the memory of those who left alive and now try to order the scattered memories of the impact, the evacuation, the help of the neighbors or the distressing search of their loved ones
PP leader calls for "immediate" and "no interference" government and judicial investigation and "complete and independent review of the entire railway network"
200 metres from the Urda railway accident, dozens of people ask agents and seek news of their loved ones between calls, ambulances and hospitals
The officers also demonstrate to the rest of the staff at the Adif checkpoint at the time of the accident.
The Renfe train hit an Iryo standing on the road about 130 kilometers from Madrid
The reporter, victim of the accident, reports the first moments of chaos after the railway crash in Toledo
An AVE train has collided with an Iryo convoy that was detained on the road, according to sources of emergency service 112, which have indicated that several wagons have fallen through a terraced
After the computer system failed, according to Puente, an operator ordered the AVE to follow "normal" even though the Iryo had warned him that he was in detention and saw on his screen that they were on their way to a crash.
53 hospitalized in Castilla-La Mancha-124; Sánchez: "Two high-speed accidents are not assumed in less than a year" - 124; Feijóo: "Spain has the right to know the state of its infrastructure"
The association calls for the intervention of the European Union Railway Agency eight months after the accident on the line Madrid- Sevilla