Safety chief, train driver jailed over deadly Santiago de Compostela derailment
A Spanish train driver and a former traffic safety chief at the national rail infrastructure operator Adif have both been handed a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence for their roles in Spain’s worst rail accident in decades. A key ruling on the derailment attributed responsibility not only to the driver but also to a failure in the management of the country’s railway safety system.
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