Óscar Puente claims that a worker derailed the train in the Madrid tunnel “for safety” and “to avoid risks”

The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, has stated that the train derailment that occurred this Saturday in Madrid was caused by one of the Adif workers to “avoid any risk” at the station and prevent it from “eventually” colliding with another. train coming. According to the explanation of the head of Transport, it has not been clarified that there was any train at that time that could impact.

Although Puente has refused to give more information and has referred what happened to the commission of investigation, he has clarified how the events occurred: “The train that was being towed breaks free from the train that was towing it and begins a journey, in a kind of free fall, through the Chamartín tunnel. A worker at the Adif control center makes the decision to divert it to one of the tracks to prevent it from ending up on the tracks that enter the quagmire and potentially colliding with an oncoming train,” he explained.

“It is not determined that there was any train at that time that it could eventually collide with, but it could have reached the track yard and collided with a train that could be coming at that time. It is about to be clarified. The decision of that worker produces the avoidance of any risk. This is what I can tell you,” he insisted, referring to the fact that when the commission concludes they will make “the appropriate assessments.”