about thirty people have been injured, two of them seriously, when they collided on Sunday night in the province of Tarragona, northeast of Spaina regional train and a freight locomotive which, according to official sources, has run a red light.
The collision occurred when the locomotive, a Captrain company machine that did not pull wagons, “jumped the signal, which was indicating a stop”, and rammed to the regional train that covered the route between Barcelona and Tortosa and in which some 75 people were travelinginformed the railway manager Adif.
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According to the Emergency Medical System (SEM), which has moved six crews to the scene of the accident, it has treated “in situ” thirty injured people, most of them minor, as well as two serious and 8 less serious.
The SEM specifies in its balance of wounded that other passengers may have sustained bruises, but that several of them have left the area with their own means.
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It is not known why the locomotive has skipped the traffic light, and that is what now needs to be investigated
Although Adif initially attributed the frontal crash to a fault in the locomotive’s brakes, it later specified that this possibility “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“, Adif sources have told Efe, who have specified that, in addition to the investigation that the infrastructure manager and the Captrain company will open ex officio, another will be carried out by the so-called Railway Accident Investigation Commission, a collegiate body dependent on the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda.
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As a result of the accident, conventional gauge rail traffic is suspended from Reus to the south of Catalonia and Levante, which affects above all, according to these sources, medium-distance trains. Renfe, for its part, has specified that, given that rail traffic is interrupted in several sections, the company is managing an alternative service of coaches to guarantee the mobility of the affected lines.
After the collision, Civil Protection has activated the emergency plan for passenger transport by rail, and other relief agencies have moved twelve crews to Vila-seca, including a unit from the Special Actions Group (Grae), which they have evacuated the passengers and have checked all the cars.
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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 caused the death of one of the train drivers and injuries of varying degrees to 86 passengers.
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