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Train Crashes
in Spain
- 2004,
May 21 - Spain, between Madrid and Galicia: two trains collided; 20
people were injured.
- 2003,
June 3 - Spain, Albacete province, near Chinchilla: around 9:40 p.m.
a high-speed passenger train, with about 90 people on board traveling
from the capital, Madrid, to the south-eastern city of Cartagena collided
on a single track head-on with a freight train and burst into flames;
19 people (14 passengers and five railroad employees) died and 40
others were injured.
- 2003,
January 4 - Spain, Albacete province, near the town of Tobarra: around
7 p.m. a train traveling between Madrid and Cartagena with 200 passengers
aboard derailed; 2 people died and 27 were injured.
- 2002,
March 30 - Spain, Catalonia: two trains carrying 600 people collided;
2 people died and 142 others were injured.
- 1993,
August 2 - Spain, Vega de Anzo: train crash in a tunnel; 12 people
died.
- 1989,
September 7 - Spain, Alava province, 70 miles northwest of Madrid:
a train carrying 120 passengers and traveling nearly 90 miles an hour
rammed into a stationary freight train; at least 5 people (the passenger
train's engineer and four women) died and 54 were injured.
- 1988,
March - Spain, Valladolid: two passenger trains collided in a station;
8 people died and 25 were injured.
- 1981,
November - Spain, Northeastern Region: a train and a truck collided
at a rail crossing; at least 11 people died and 30 were injured, all
of them passengers of the train.
- 1972,
July 21 - Southern Spain, Cadix-Seville line: Two trains collided;
72 people died
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