On Tuesday, January 13, a small train crash took place in Barcelona, Spain which had taken a person’s life and injured dozens. Less than a week after this incident, another, more devastating train collision took place just south of Barcelona.
The first train, belonging to a private company, which was about to reach a station south of Barcelona, derailed at 150mph. After, part of this train had collided with an incoming train belonging to Spain’s popular train company, Renfe.
The Prime minister of Spain and the government scrambled to find the answer to what caused this incident, but they too were empty handed.
The President of Renfe, Álvaro Fernández Heredia explains what the crash was not caused by.
“We can rule out human error as they were below the speed limit,” Heredia said.
According to the private company involved in the accident, the train that was involved was deemed safe to be on tracks and it was manufactured recently as well. 
The number of casualties kept going up the more they searched, it was estimated to the be upwards of 40 and hundreds more were injured.
The incident prompted Spain’s royal family to comment on the matter.
“We are all responsible for not looking away when the debris of a catastrophe is being cleared away,” said Spain’s queen, Letizia.
People speculated that the tracks of the train had not been under proper maintenance and it was broken, so the train traveling at 150mps was guaranteed to derail.
Bus systems and airports all around Spain added to their services and works overtime to stall until the train systems will come back near that area.
Then right after this huge incident, 2 more train related events took place on the 18th and the 21st, where first a commuter train derailed which killed the driver and injured four passengers. Then on the 21st “a street-lighting basket crane vehicle … encroached on public railway land with its arm, striking the windows of a metric gauge train that was passing by at the time,” Transport Minister Oscar Puente wrote in a post on X.
These 4 incidents caused strikes nationwide about better quality transportation, public safety and better maintenance.
