European prosecutors probe EU rail funds after Urda crash kills 69 on Madrid-Seville line
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European Union prosecutors backed by Guardia Civil specialists began investigating possible misuse of EU funds for upgrading Spanish railways, searching Adif and rail safety agency AESF after a 28 October high-speed crash near Urda, about 130 km south of Madrid on the Madrid-Seville line, killed 69 people when a Renfe train struck a stationary Iryo train after the LZB train-position system failed and Renfe was cleared to run at normal speed. It is Spain’s second EU rail fraud inquiry this year after a January Adamuz collision on the same line killed 46; the two accidents nine months apart have claimed 115 lives and left dozens more injured.
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