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Survivors of Spain’s worst train crashes urge action after latest disaster
As people suffering post-traumatic stress watch history repeat itself, experts call for investment in safety.
Al Jazeera•
Madrid, Spain – “I survived but the mental scars are still there all these years later. We must stop more accidents happening,” says Cristobal Gonalez.
Gonzalez suffered multiple injuries when a high-speed train, which should have been travelling at 80 kilometres per hour (50 miles per hour), hurtled off the line at 200km/h (125mph), killing 80 people.
The accident in 2013 at Angrois, near Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, remains Spain’s deadliest rail crash.
An initial investigation into the Adamuz crash found a broken rail had caused one train to veer off the line into the path of an oncoming train.