4 killed 3 seriously injured hit by train in Spain

[Gingernuts]

As a newly retired ex train driver and conductor I am dismayed by the stupidity of people!
A couple of hundred tons of train travelling at 70 mph cannot stop in the sighting distance! So the train driver even if he sees the obstacle is going straight to the scene of the accident. This time 7 people crossed the line after leaving a music festival, on a curve!!!!!
4 are dead 3 are critically injured. My thoughts are with the train crew and the victims family’s

 

[steve69]

As a newly retired ex train driver and conductor I am dismayed by the stupidity of people!
A couple of hundred tons of train travelling at 70 mph cannot stop in the sighting distance! So the train driver even if he sees the obstacle is going straight to the scene of the accident. This time 7 people crossed the line after leaving a music festival, on a curve!!!!!
4 are dead 3 are critically injured. My thoughts are with the train crew and the victims family’s

A music festival you say?...You will never know what part drugs played in this.

 

[EuroTrotters]

Four killed after being hit by train while crossing tracks in horror crash

The tragedy happened just before 8.30pm between the stations of Parets del Valles and Granollers as the group were crossing the tracks at a point 'with difficult visibility' near Barcelona, Spain

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[gus-lopez]

quite common here .The lines ,except high speed,are open.people walk along them as it is the quickest way A2B; sheep & goats are herded along between fields.

 

[Brains]

quite common here .The lines ,except high speed,are open.people walk along them as it is the quickest way A2B; sheep & goats are herded along between fields.

I'd class a train travelling at 70mph as 'high speed'
Even an old steam train travelling at 30-40mph does not give much time to get out of the way, it just used to make much more noise in the approach.

It sounds like the Spanish rail system needs to erect thousands of miles of fencing to protect their own property and also that of the populace.
It should be no easier to walk on a railway than it is to walk on a motorway.
Same dangers, same speeds.

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[Nigel Crompton]

"It sounds like the Spanish rail system needs to erect thousands of miles of fencing"

No, they don't.
I was gobsmacked that on the very first French, family, campsite I ever stayed on an unfenced rail line ran along one boundary. The kids dint go anywhere near it; wasn't a problem. Much of rural France is still the same; the onus seems to be on farmers to keep their stock off the lines. Much of rural USA is the same too I think, with lines still crossing Main Street - tho' they appear to have dispensed with 'cow-catchers' They should prob'ly have 'semi' catchers instead.
Even when barriers and warning lights are installed at crossings they're ignored by some. Darwinism Rules AFAIC, but sorry for the loco drivers ...

 

[gus-lopez]

I'd class a train travelling at 70mph as 'high speed'

No the local one here is probably around 40mph

It sounds like the Spanish rail system needs to erect thousands of miles of fencing to protect their own property

Never going to happen. as said most people only use it to get to somewhere when trains aren't running . very infrequent & at the moment none at all whilst ave is being constructed. The AVE is the only line that has fencing

It should be no easier to walk on a railway than it is to walk on a motorway.

The line runs right through the town with various pedestrian & vehicle crossing points, most without any type of barriers. You are meant to use some common sense & look & listen or even see the flashing red lights. In town east to west travel is quicker along the lines than wandering around back streets,.Even I do it on occasions.

 

[mitzimad]

"It sounds like the Spanish rail system needs to erect thousands of miles of fencing"

No, they don't.
I was gobsmacked that on the very first French, family, campsite I ever stayed on an unfenced rail line ran along one boundary. The kids dint go anywhere near it; wasn't a problem. Much of rural France is still the same; the onus seems to be on farmers to keep their stock off the lines. Much of rural USA is the same too I think, with lines still crossing Main Street - tho' they appear to have dispensed with 'cow-catchers' They should prob'ly have 'semi' catchers instead.
Even when barriers and warning lights are installed at crossings they're ignored by some. Darwinism Rules AFAIC, but sorry for the loco drivers ...

i agree as kids we would play on the open lines across the marshes in london the cost of fencing them all in must have been immense