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>In France and Japan, HSR has had zero fatalities in the entire period of operation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckwersheim_derailment
I would not consider an accident during a test run with partially disabled safety procedures a regular part of operations - on a normal run, the train should have slowed down or stopped automatically before derailing because it did significantly exceed the design speed of the track.
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>Derailing under these circumstances is a track issue, which means ADIF, the state's infrastructure maintainer, is under suspicion. This is the most likely outcome, but it is not as cut-and-dried as you are presenting it. It could be a broken rail weld, it could be track sabotage, it could be a broken wheel or bogie... we don't know yet.
> It could be a broken rail weld, it could be track sabotage, it could be a broken wheel or bogie... we don't know yet. Yes, the root cause is still unknown, and an investigation needs to happen to determine the root cause. Sabotage or not, the infrastructure is by far the most likely suspect. Even in the Santiago de Compostela accident, the root cause was the way the Spanish high speed railway infrastructure was mis…
ASFA has no notion of a speed limit. Spanish HSLs have subsequently been resignalled to ETCS, which adds speed control.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anuncio_de_Se%C3%B1ales_y_Fren...
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Not having fail-safes is the issue itself.
So smart, do you not understand the question? Don't answer if you can't, instead of trying to weasel. You're acting like the Spanish politicians now.