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Pablo Oromí: 'Spanish railway transport is one of the safest; accidents are isolated'

In just nine months, Spain has recorded two major rail accidents in the high-speed network (AVE). The first occurred on January 18, 2026, when an Iryo train was derailed on the Málaga-Madrid road by a break in the infrastructure and invaded another lane, where it collided with an Alvia de Renfe train. On October 28, a high-speed train hit another convoy at the height of Urda (Toledo) station, south of Madrid. Both accidents reopened the debate on the safety of the Spanish rail system. We discussed the subject with Pablo Oromí, ingen

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Óscar Puente, Minister of Transport, calls the railway accident in Toledo "unlikely"

The Spanish Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, stated on October 28 that the fatal railway accident occurred after a high-speed train from Renfe received permission to resume the march despite a red signal indicating that it should stop, due to the presence of another convoy immobilized on the tracks. According to the minister, this decision is in violation of the security protocol.

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Spain: new railway disaster leaves at least 68 dead and 108 injured

The president of Castilla- La Mancha, Emiliano García- Page, raised the provisional balance of deaths in the railway accident to 68 Wednesday, 24 on the AVE train and 44 on the convoy of Iryo. In addition, 53 people received hospital care, 15 of them with serious injuries, while emergency teams plan to mobilize canine units to find potential survivors among the rubble.

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