AT LEAST 80 DEAD AND 140 INJURED

 

1. This happened 20 miles from where I live. Absolutely terrible. The only good thing has been the reaction of the emergency services, hospitals and ordinary folk. The first on the scene were neighbors from the vicinity with blankets and axes to cut into the carriages. A request went out for blood donors and two hours later the message was, we don’t need any more to come as we have plenty of volunteers waiting to donate.

   At the moment the death count is 80 with 35 in critical condition.

   Posted by TimboToo       07/25/2013  at  02:34 PM  



2. Dispatch: please tell Obama and Gov. Brown we need more high-speed rail.

   Sincerely,

   your friendly neighborhood zombies.

   Posted by Christopher       07/25/2013  at  06:05 PM  



3. They should be building a gallows to publicly hang the driver.  Fucking homicidal idiots like him need to be eliminated.

   Posted by grayjohn       07/25/2013  at  06:56 PM  



4. State owned rail - who can the survivors and family of dead sue - or does Spain even allow things like that. Turned on BBC World to see about the New Prince - and all they were talking about was the Spanish train crash. I guess that the train driver isn’t going to be laughing about being ‘only human’ anymore.

   Posted by wardmama4       07/26/2013  at  07:13 AM  



5. Those kind of speeds on regular rails seems rather sketchy to frankly. It looks rather obvious the grading angle was not engineered for that kind of speed.

   Posted by Rich K       07/26/2013  at  04:53 PM  



6. The latest deadcount has been revised down to 78. Too many loose bodyparts which made them think there were more than there were....

   Posted by TimboToo       07/28/2013  at  09:18 AM  

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