More than 80 dead as train derails in Spain

[Mag]

Apologies if this is a respost, figured it would have been up yesterday but I guess not.

Heard on the news earlier that the toll is at 81, really just unbelievable, I've heard the entire route it was going along was built for high speed trains, except the part it crashed at, where he was supposed to go at 50 instead of the usual 100, but being 5 minutes behind on time, he kept going at full speed. Certainly a pretty big mistake to make.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23442018

As you can see, he definitely wasn't going 50

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[alex=]

Old news I'M SUCH A HIPSTER LOL

 

[MNS]

Wow, horrible driver

 

[LoathesRaisins]

That's like 3 train crashes within a month.

 

[~Gotama~]

and two plane crashes

 

[ryano]

 

[*SID*]

lol'd so hard

 

[Becker88]

Holy shit that video

 

[werd.]

I'm not sure if he's joking though, because it actually was the drivers fault... either way this is terrible

 

[howlongcanausern]

government dependence = zero accountability

did the conductor die?

 

[*SID*]

really? I though it was all computer driven.

 

[alex=]

you know what they say about asian drivers

 

[werd.]

nah read the whole thread. I actually thought the same as you and now feel like an assclown

 

[extravert]

nope, he's fine. He admitted to driving twice as fast as he was supposed to through that section.