On Wednesday 28 October, near Urda in Toledo province, a Renfe AVE and an Iryo train carrying 544 people between them collided on the Madrid–Seville high-speed line. A signalling failure had halted traffic and control had gone manual; the AVE was authorised past the red signal into the stationary Iryo. Sixty-eight people died — Spain's deadliest rail disaster since 2013, and the second fatal crash on the same line in nine months.
Then El País published the controller's audio. The driver, critics say, was told to keep running at normal speed instead of the 40 km/h caution limit. Transport Minister Óscar Puente calls the crash inexplicable and refuses to resign; Madrid protested outside his ministry, the drivers' union SEMAF struck, and Spain began three days of national mourning. A judge has sealed the case.
So who should carry this — one controller, or the system behind him? Watch the evidence, then give your verdict in the comments on YouTube: RESIGN or UNFAIR.
