The Civil Guard has fewer and fewer hypotheses on the table to try to find out why two trains collided in Adamuz, in the province of Córdoba, on January 18, an event that caused 46 fatalities. In fact, the Spanish police are now practically only investigating one of the hypotheses: a track breakage would have caused a derailment of an Iryo train traveling towards Madrid, which collided with an Alvia train that was moving in the opposite direction at that time.

The European Public Prosecutor's Office will also investigate the tragic train accident in Adamuz, Córdoba. in which 46 people died on January 18thSpecifically, the European Union Public Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation into possible fraud involving European funds in the maintenance of the high-speed rail line connecting Madrid and Seville, the section where the accident occurred. "This exceptional confirmation comes after significant public interest. No further details will be made public at this stage," stated the European Public Prosecutor's Office in Madrid. This EU body is responsible for investigating crimes that may affect the EU's financial interests. In this case, according to EFE, the investigation seeks to determine whether there was embezzlement and misappropriation of European aid in the use of European funds. SER reports that the investigation is looking into whether there was misappropriation in the management of the more than €100 million from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) allocated to these works. The Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, has confirmed that the European Public Prosecutor's Office has been investigating the accident since it occurred. In his opinion, the agency intervenes in "all cases involving European funds." "For whatever reason, it's being presented today as a major development, but it isn't," he stated in a social media post. On January 30, European prosecutors Luis Miguel Jiménez Crespo and Juan José Navas Blánquez requested from the Ministry of Transport "all signed contracts and the corresponding file numbers related to the section of the railway network where the accident occurred." Meanwhile, the investigation into the causes of the accident is being conducted by an investigating court in Andalusia.

A chemistry experiment at the El Entorno School in Porqueres resulted in three nine-year-old students suffering burns. The Emergency Medical Service (SEM) evacuated two of the injured in serious condition to Vall d'Hebron Hospital, one by helicopter and the other by ambulance, and the third with minor injuries to Josep Trueta Hospital in Girona. During the day, a boy and a girl were discharged from Trueta and Vall d'Hebron, respectively. The third injured student, a fourth-grade boy, remains hospitalized in the burn unit of the Barcelona hospital. According to sources consulted by ARA, the class was conducting the so-called "volcano experiment" outside the school. During the experiment, which is usually done with a plastic bottle containing a mixture of ingredients such as baking soda and vinegar, the bottle burst, and the liquid splashed onto some students, causing burns to three of them.

The black boxes of the two trains that crashed on January 18 in Adamuz (Córdoba) reveal that between the derailment of the Iryo train and collision with the Alvia trainOnly fifteen seconds passed, according to a statement released Tuesday evening by the Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF). Specifically, the black boxes provide information about the most critical 43 seconds of the accident, between 7:43 p.m. and 7:44 p.m., when the two trains collided while traveling below the permitted speed (250 km/h). The starting point where the Iryo train derailed and occupied the other track (from the Loma del Partidor Norte tunnel to the Adamuz South switch) coincides with the "track where the rail fracture was located," the CIAF indicates. The investigation states that at 19:43:29 hours, an electrical disconnection of the train's motor occurred, "the first anomaly detected as a symptom of the derailment," while fifteen seconds later (at 19:43:44 hours), the Alvia train's black box "stopped recording." This moment, therefore, "presumably corresponds to the moment of the collision between the two trains," according to an initial analysis of the black boxes, which reveals that the derailment triggered an automatic emergency braking of the Alvia through the LZB safety system (a railway safety system). Temperature alarm

According to the CIAF (Spanish Railway Infrastructure Manager), the disconnection was presumably related to "voltage disturbances or a lack of contact between the pantograph and the overhead contact line," being the first anomaly detected as a symptom of the derailment. At the time of the disconnection, which occurred through the opening of the circuit breaker, the Iryo train was traveling at 205 km/h. Four seconds after this first derailment, the Iryo was on track circuit 645, but a temperature alarm was registered in the grease boxes of car 8, "presumably because it was already derailed." "This alarm triggers the activation of the train's brakes, and the train is braking," the CIAF reports, adding that at 19:43:37, eight seconds after the derailment, switch A645 was not checked.

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This Friday marks one month since the tragic Gelida train accident On the night of Tuesday, January 20, 2026, a commuter train derailed near Gelida, on the R4 line between Martorell and Sant Sadurní d'Anoia. The accident resulted in the death of a young trainee train driver and left five people seriously injured after a retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks. The accident caused a complete shutdown of the line and affected hundreds of passengers, highlighting the fragility of a railway infrastructure marked by decades of underinvestment and an aging train fleet.

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"Based on the above and as of the current date, this possibility cannot be definitively ruled out, pending the completion of the remaining information to be gathered." This is one of the most repeated phrases in the Civil Guard's initial report on the cause of the accident. from Adamuz, which on January 18 caused the death of 46 people and left more than 150 injuredThe document, to which ARA has had access, presents up to eight hypotheses that could have caused the tragic accident, and, for the moment, the police force explains that they do not have enough information to rule any of them out.

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The Adamuz train accident will necessitate a considerable review of the track conditions to ensure, as far as possible, the safety of the high-speed rail network. This network comprises 3,000 kilometers, used by more than 40 million passengers last year. The same must be done with the commuter rail network, bearing in mind in both cases the need to restore services to full normality as soon as possible and with the necessary guarantees. It is a matter of responsibility. On the one hand, the smooth operation of transportation—including high-speed rail—is a necessity, not a luxury, and on the other, risks must be minimized. Besides establishing the causes of accidents—which in the case of Gelida are especially clearer than in the one from AdamuzWhat must be guaranteed is that proper maintenance of the network is carried out.

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Five days after the train accident in Adamuz (Córdoba), a court ruling has rewritten the responsibilities for the worst accident on Spanish high-speed rail: the crash of an Alvia train on July 24, 2013, in Santiago de Compostela, in which 80 people died and 144 were injured. This Friday, the Provincial Court of A Coruña overturned the conviction of the then-head of safety at Adif (Spain's railway infrastructure manager) and placed all responsibility on the train driver. Lawyer Antonio Benítez Ostos, managing partner of Administrativando Abogados, has been assisting the victims of the Angrois train accident throughout the independent technical investigation process and is demanding that the Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF) be composed solely of technicians who have not been affiliated with Renfe (Spain's national railway company).

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The initial findings of the Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF) regarding Tuesday night's commuter train accident between Gelida and Sant Sadurní d'Anoia indicate that the train reached the point of the accident at the same time that a retaining wall belonging to the AP-7 motorway was collapsing. The wall was inclined at approximately 45 degrees, encroaching on the train's path, and became embedded in the driver's cab. Although it is a straight section of track, the report adds, the driver did not see the wall in time because it was nighttime and raining. According to data from the train's data recorder—the black box—the driver had very little time to brake before the impact. Approximately five seconds elapsed between the start of braking and the collision, during which the train traveled about 50 meters. At that moment, the train was traveling at approximately 60 kilometers per hour.

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"Now is not the time for controversy." These words, spoken this Thursday by the PP spokesperson in the Andalusian Parliament, Toni Marín, exemplify the communication strategy employed by Juanma Moreno Bonilla's government regarding the Adamuz tragedy. All levels of government, including the Spanish government, "have risen to the occasion," Marín emphasized during his turn to speak, expressing his gratitude for the suspension of the plenary session initially scheduled for yesterday. Hours later, the Andalusian president himself chose not to engage with Isabel Díaz Ayuso's criticism of Pedro Sánchez's administration: "We recovered two bodies three hours ago. I'm not one for controversy; there will be time for an investigation later." The Andalusian PP's strategy serves to clearly differentiate itself from the national PP and, above all, from the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, who has stated that a "code of silence" has been imposed following the accident to cover up the Zapatero issue and has even suggested that the Andalusian and Spanish governments agreed to arrange the victims' funerals in Madrid.

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A man and a woman sit in the Roche café, on the corner of two residential streets in Córdoba. He drinks a coffee and she drinks a glass of milk, finishing off the crumbs of two pastries they've already eaten. They barely speak. Both stare out at the street through a large window. Outside, it's dark, and hardly any cars pass by. Their gazes are completely lost. Her name is Blanca, and his is José, and they recently learned that a relative died in the collision between two high-speed trains in Adamuz, in the province of Córdoba.

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TheInvestigation into Sunday night's train crash in AdamuzThe train crash, which has already left 42 dead, more than a hundred injured, and 43 missing, continues. Moments after the Adamuz train accident, the driver of the Iryo company contacted the Adif control center in Atocha to warn that he had experienced a "coupler" near the town in Córdoba province. The communication, recorded on the train's black box and published by [unclear - possibly "the train" or "the train"].Eldiario.esThe recording contains the initial description of what happened, when the driver still didn't have a complete understanding of the derailment or the extent of the collision with the other train involved. Far from clarifying the facts, however, the audio has raised many questions. How could neither the driver nor the control personnel mention the collision with the Alvia train? How could the control personnel say that "no other train is coming"? The ARA (Argentine Radio and Television Archive) has spoken with several train drivers and experts who, with their experience, provide the necessary context to interpret this call. This is a reconstruction of what likely happened in the minutes following the fatal collision and the call:

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The Investigation into Sunday night's train crash in AdamuzThe tragedy, which has already left 43 dead, more than a hundred injured, and some forty missing, continues. Moments after the Adamuz train accident, the driver of the Iryo company contacted the Adif control center in Atocha to warn that he had experienced a "coupler" near the town in Córdoba province. The communication, recorded on the train's black box and published by [unclear - possibly "new trains" or "trains"]. Eldiario.es, includes the first description of what happened, when the driver still did not have a complete perception of the derailment or the extent of the collision with the other train involved.

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One person died Tuesday night and five others were seriously injured when a retaining wall collapsed onto the tracks, causing part of an R4 train to derail. The train was traveling between Gelida and Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, heading towards Barcelona. The victim was a young trainee train driver, as confirmed by the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police). The victim was at the front of the train, inside the cab, with the lead driver and other trainees, according to Fire Department Sub-Inspector Joan Rovira. He was born in 1998 and his family lives in Seville, the Catalan police reported. As a result of the accident, all commuter and regional train services have been suspended until at least 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, when a crisis meeting will be held to assess whether service can be resumed. In any case, there will be no trains running at the start of the day.

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“I was at home when I heard about the train derailment,” Ana explains. It was already night, and this resident of Adamuz (Córdoba) was already in her pajamas, but she and her partner, Francisco, didn't hesitate: they got in the car and drove as close as possible to the tracks where the train tragedy had just occurred. “There were a lot of people screaming, a woman about to die, more people getting out of the carriages, covered in blood, some unconscious…” she recalls. Even now, she doesn't understand how she was able to stay and help the injured. “Normally, I faint at the sight of a drop of blood,” she admits.

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As the hours pass, Investigation into Sunday night's train crash in AdamuzThe train crash, which has already left 42 dead, more than a hundred injured, and 43 missing, is increasingly focusing on the condition of the tracks. Investigation teams are working with all hypotheses open, but have concentrated on several rail breaks detected along the stretch of track where the accident occurred. In an interview Monday night on TVE, Transport Minister Óscar Puente admitted that, indeed, "there are pieces of broken rail in several places." "We have detected an initial break, but the crucial question is whether it is the cause or the consequence of the accident," the minister explained. In other words, the teams are now trying to determine whether the rail broke at some point and this caused the derailment, or whether, on the contrary, the train's derailment and the subsequent collision—and the dragging of all the rolling stock—damaged the tracks.

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When he recalls the scene and tries to describe it, only isolated words emerge. "Death." "Destruction." "Hands." Each word conjures an image from a dramatic night. He remembers a woman weeping, saying she didn't know where her husband was. The image of a pile of twisted metal flashes before his eyes, with hands emerging from it. Some moving, others still. Gonzalo Sánchez is 46 years old and from Adamuz, a small town in Córdoba with just over 4,000 inhabitants. Four kilometers from the town, amidst olive groves and forests, Two high-speed trains collided Sunday at 7:45 p.m.

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"It's very strange that it happened on a straight stretch of road." This was one of the first assessments made on Sunday night by railway experts, train drivers, industry workers, and even the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente. The area where they collided Two trains in Adamuz (Cordoba), an accident that has already left at least 40 deadIt's flat terrain: a long straight stretch with the only element being a switch.

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The AP-7 motorway experienced another chaotic day of queues and traffic jams this Tuesday. The weekend was already particularly difficult, with a tanker truck overturning and causing road closures near Baix Ebre. This Tuesday, the epicenter was also in the same southern region, and it was again a truck that, for reasons under investigation, crossed the median of the motorway, colliding head-on with another heavy vehicle traveling in the opposite direction and also affecting a third truck that tried to avoid them. The driver of the first truck died in the accident. The accident caused closures in both directions that lasted for hours, with traffic jams exceeding ten kilometers. Around midday, one lane in each direction was reopened, improving traffic flow.

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A 14-year-old girl died Tuesday night after being hit by a bus in Barcelona. Specifically, the accident occurred at number 107 Gran Via de Carlos III, in the Les Corts district of Barcelona, as the victim was crossing the street with her mother. Police sources explain that they are investigating whether the mother and daughter were crossing in a designated area. According to the Barcelona City Council, the incident happened around 9:30 p.m., when a bus on the X43 express line, operated by the Monbus company, fatally struck the young woman. Units from the Central Traffic Accident Investigation Unit (UCAT) of the Barcelona Municipal Police were dispatched to the scene to determine the cause of the accident. Barcelona firefighters and ambulances from the Medical Emergency System (SEM) also responded. This is the ninth traffic fatality in the city this year. The Barcelona City Council has expressed its condolences to the family and friends of the victim and reaffirmed its commitment to continue working to reduce traffic fatalities.

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