Spain’s rail safety system went down before a crash that killed 69 — its transport minister calls 170 outages this year ‘normal’
Was Spain’s second major train collision this year caused by human error or does it show severe cracks in its once touted high-speed rail network? Spain’s transport minister has laid most of the blame on a traffic controller’s poor judgment for Wednesday’s collision in Toledo province, which killed 69 people. But railway unions have pushed…