As of writing the article says 10. Other sources, sadly, indicate up to 39.

so much for European safety, now compare it to volumes on Chinese HSR and number of deaths there compared to Spain

edit: inconvenient truth for downvoters?

50 according one of the biggesr Spanish newspapers, just open the homepage, you can read 50 even in Spanish

https://www.abc.es

so thanks everyone for downvotes just because you use slow news sources or deny the truth EU high speed trains are extremely dangerous compared to China on deaths/volume

The public minister of transport is still on his chair after the last ones. No responsability admited and blaming the far right for attacking him with media.

Is amazing how the current politic scene at spain has shittified, they get away with everything and ppl will still clap for them.

https://elpais.com/espana/2026-10-28/por-que-han-chocado-dos...

An automated system[*] had failed earlier this morning, so controllers were working manually.

[*] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linienzugbeeinflussung ("LZB")

[added translation]: "The LZB safety system, which controls Spain's high-speed rail network, malfunctioned on Wednesday morning, causing about eight trains to come to a halt in the area. The control center then switched to manual control and ordered all trains to resume operation. However, the Iryo, for reasons that remain unclear, was unable to start and remained stationary. And that is where human error came into play, according to these initial hypotheses."

Says the Spanish train crash in Jan of this year that killed 46 was the "same operators on the same line."

This is gonna add fuel to the fire, and as I lived in East Asia (Hong Kong to be specific) I'm kind of curious why it all happened around the eurozone lately.

France, Albania, Belgium, Spain, Greece, UK and Serbia recently (although it is not eurozone but closely related anyway as part of the great Balkans). What's left? Germany and Poland I guess?

Anyhow it really reminds me of the First World War

> “A human error by an [state-owned railway infrastructure company] Adif operator in response to a malfunction in the main signaling system is the likely cause of the accident,” government sources said. This safety system is automated, but when it fails, it switches to manual mode. That is why the trains came to a stop when the automatic safety system failed, and service resumed under human control — and that is where the error occurred, according to initial analyses.

This is not the first time something broadly like that happens. In 2013 another train crashed because there was a section of the track where the operator had to manually adjust the speed, and he didn't.

One would think that the operation of these trains would be fully automated at all times, and with sufficient allowances to handle emergencies safely.

Point in case: Japan has not had a single death due to a crash of a high speed train, even though they have been operating an extensive network for decades.

Sorry to make a political statement with this tragedy, but the downgrade in Spain in recent years is just too much.

DEP and my condolences to the relatives and love ones.