Spain Train Crash: Audio Recordings Reveal Safety Failures Before Collision

Recordings show a train driver reported a system failure minutes before the crash in Spain, while controllers cleared a second train without speed limits.

Audio recordings from the cabin of the Iryo train reveal that minutes before the deadly crash in Urda, Spain, the driver reported to the control center that she was stationary because the train would not allow a system restart. According to Spanish newspaper El Mundo, the rail traffic control center authorized the oncoming AVE train to proceed without imposing the speed restrictions mandated during automatic signaling failures.

Meanwhile, CBS News and Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported that the official death toll stands at at least 68, with dozens of injured passengers still receiving hospital treatment. Foreign nationals are among the casualties, including six Canadians injured and one unaccounted for, as well as a Spanish Civil Guard officer confirmed dead. Further details from the investigation have not yet been released.