They're not sure what happened. Maybe a wheel broke off. Maybe a tunnel collapsed:
MADRID, Spain - A subway train derailed and overturned in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia on Monday, killing at least 30 people and injuring about a dozen, a regional government spokesman said.
The likely cause of the accident was that the train was traveling at high speed and one of its wheels broke off, local government spokesman Luis Felipe Martinez said. A tunnel wall also may have collapsed onto the carriage, investigators said, according to news reports.
Officials said the accident occurred on the No. 1 line of Valencia's subway system as it was leaving Jesus station in downtown Valencia, one of Spain's biggest cities with a population of 800,000. It is on the country's east coast, about 220 miles southeast of Madrid.
Some 150 people were evacuated from the station, and Spanish National Radio reported that all had been removed from the subway.
"Initial investigations show it was an accident," said Vicente Rambla, spokesman for the Valencia regional government.
Police cordoned off the area and an emergency mobile hospital was set up at the scene. Private TV station CNN-Plus showed emergency workers carrying the injured away on stretchers.
Could have been a tunnel collapse, or a wheel that fell off, huh? Think about how illogical that is. If a tunnel collapsed, why would they even consider the wheel that fell off? If a wheel fell off, why would a tunnel collapse?
Why would a tunnel collaspse at all? What causes a tunnel to collapse? An earthquake? Structural unsoundness? A bomb?
2 comments:
Many of the subway systems in Spain are "cut & cover" as opposed to tunnelled... and thus the depth of the railway is not that great. It is not inconceivable that a derailed train may take-out a few supporting structures and bring in the roof.
We had a few broken wheels recently on the Central line.
Ok, I see what you mean.
That wouldn't happen here in America on any subway system I have seen.
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