The until now president of Adif, Luis Pedro Marco de la Peña, presented his resignation this Wednesday to the Spanish government's vice president, Carlos Cuerpo, who was also debuting today as Minister of Transport. This is confirmed by sources from the Spanish government. Marco de la Peña has resigned from his position at the railway operator the day after the now former Minister of Transport Óscar Puente also resigned, and one week after the tragic train accident in Urda (Toledo), which has left 69 fatalities.

In recent days, the residents of Urda have become the involuntary protagonists of an accident that will leave indelible marks on this small town seventy kilometers from Toledo. They are a multitude of anonymous people who did not hesitate to approach the scene, who were on the front line from the very first moment to help the victims. Now, still in shock, they remember a few hours that have changed their lives. Nor will the passenger of another AVE train that was covering the route from Seville to Madrid, and which stopped 500 meters from the accident, ever forget it.

The tragic railway accident in Urda, in the province of Toledo, which has already left about seventy fatalities, has sparked unrest among railway workers, controllers, and train drivers, especially after this Wednesday the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, pointed directly to the "human error" of an operator in the Adif control center room.

The Data Integration Center (CID) created due to the train accident in Urda, Toledo, has warned that some relatives of potential fatalities are receiving fake SMS messages and urges those who receive them to disregard them.

Two railway accidents in Spain in the same year that add up to more than 100 deaths are "unacceptable". The assessment was made this Wednesday by the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, after the tragedy in Toledo. Under normal circumstances, an "unacceptable" event should lead to significant decisions. And, just as it happened after the Adamuz accident, all eyes are once again focused on the Minister of Transport, Óscar Puente, who for the time being has no intention of resigning. "I am not thinking about myself," he explained this Wednesday to guarantee that he is fully focused on "clarifying the facts and trying to resolve the situation." How will he get out of this one?

The unfortunate chain of technical failures and human errors that ended in the collision of two high-speed trains in Urda, Toledo, opens up many questions about how it could have happened and what technical factors could explain a disaster of these characteristics. Transport sector expert and director of the Terminus Transport Studies Centre, Joan Carles Salmerón, clarifies technical terms and the main unknowns still surrounding the accident for the ARA. There are six questions to provide context and understand key concepts.

The person who was Minister of Labor during the government of Mariano Rajoy, Fátima Báñez, is one of the people missing in the train accident in Toledo this Wednesday. According to the employers' association CEOE, they are awaiting news about the director, who currently presides over the business organization's foundation. "We employers are dismayed by the railway accident," states the CEOE in a statement.

A person in a wheelchair raising a rifle. It is the image that Nerea Pérez de las Heras (Madrid, 1982) has on WhatsApp and which is, in reality, the logo of a fictional terrorist group that brought together people with disabilities. It was invented by Álex de la Iglesia in the film Acción Mutante. She already had a combative outlook before the summer of 2023. She had filled theaters with the monologue Feminismo para torpes, which would end up becoming a book; she wrote for different publications and co-hosted the podcasts –which continue today– Saldremos Mejores and Lo Normal. She had already turned 40 and was with a group of friends in a cove in Menorca which can only be accessed on foot or by boat. It was July 3 years ago. That day she was wearing a new swimsuit. The propeller of a sailboat severed her right leg, which was amputated after three operations. She explains this in the book Fantasma (Alfaguara), where she flees from narratives of overcoming to combine intimate narration with an essay that traverses love, disability, housing, and a fierce defense of public healthcare.

The first summer with the V-16 beacon has been "a bad summer" on the roads. The assessment comes from the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, who presented the accident report for July and August this Monday. During these two months, 240 people have died on roads throughout the State, 12 more than in 2025, with a dark day seeing ten victims on Thursday, August 13.

A woman is in critical condition due to a hit-and-run this Tuesday in the center of Barcelona. Specifically, the incident occurred at the intersection of Aragó street and Rambla de Catalunya. In the same accident, a minor was also injured in a less serious condition.

A blockage in the connection well of the works to bury the R2 line, on the border between Barcelona and Montcada i Reixac, swallowed a large crane and more heavy machinery this Wednesday at noon, but it did not cause injuries. Adif sources explained to ARA that no personal injuries were registered as a result of the incident, but the sinkhole has forced to to preventively interrupt the railway traffic between Montcada i Reixac and Sant Andreu without a specific restoration date, with affectations on R2, R2 Nord and R11.

A tragic traffic accident yesterday claimed the life of winemaker Iván Sanz Cid, 48 years old; his wife, 45, and two of their three children, aged 17 and 14. The youngest daughter, aged 9, was airlifted to Burgos hospital in serious condition. Iván Sanz Cid was the general director of Dehesa de los Canónigos, one of the most recognized wineries in the Ribera del Duero designation of origin. The winery, founded by his parents, was managed by the second generation of the family: on one hand, him as general director; and, on the other, his sister Belén, responsible for the oenological part.

New morning of chaos on the AP-7 due to two accidents involving trucks that have greatly complicated traffic. The accidents occurred near La Pobla de Montornès, in Tarragonès, and in Martorell, in Baix Llobregat, and are already causing kilometer-long queues.

Ferran's boulevard in Lleida has become this Wednesday the scene of one of the most serious traffic accidents ever remembered in the city. A bus with 55 passengers, which covered the route between Lleida and La Granja d'Escarp, lost control shortly before a quarter to eight in the morning and ended up crashing against the facade of the Diputació de Lleida for reasons that are still being investigated.

The Spanish police are investigating the death of a 14-month-old girl due to burns suffered while allegedly being bathed by her mother's partner. The injuries that would have been caused kept the girl hospitalized for two months at the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville.

In a world saturated with instant information, communication during times of crisis is suffering a worrying decline. It seems that what should be a public service is becoming a consumer product laden with sensationalism and misinformation. What should be an aid to understanding and managing uncertainty too often transforms into something that disorients, speculates, and further wounds not only those experiencing a traumatic situation, but also the general public. Unfortunately, we have recently witnessed extreme cases—the train accidents or the torrential rains in the Girona region—in which some elements journalistic They opted for sensationalist interviews, constant unverified speculation, and clickbait-driven headlines that sacrificed ethics and responsibility.

The Railway Accident Investigation Commission (CIAF)The Spanish Railways Authority (AER) issued its first report on Friday regarding the cause of the train accident in Adamuz (Córdoba), based on rail and tread samples. The tread is the outer surface of the train wheel in direct contact with the track. The document suggests that the leading hypothesis is that the left rail of the track broke before the Iryo train passed. "Car 6 derailed due to a complete loss of track continuity," it states. The condition of the railway tracks on this section of the high-speed line in Córdoba has been a focus of the authorities' investigation almost from the outset. At the site of the accident, where an Iryo train car overturned and collided with an Alvia train traveling in the opposite direction, causing 45 fatalities, a broken section of track was identified, as well as damage to the undercarriage of some train cars. marks were detected which could correspond to a defect in the rails, as the Spanish government had explained.

The Ministry of the Interior and the Civil Guard appeared this Thursday to report on the work carried out by the police, including the submission of an initial report to the court in Montoro (Córdoba), which will oversee the judicial investigation into the Adamuz train accident. As part of these initial steps, the police have provided the judge with 2,500 photographs, as well as statements from the train driver, crew, and passengers, without ruling out expanding the range of witnesses later.

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.

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.