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Date Published: 13/06/2022

ARCHIVED - Another Barcelona train crash leaves 22 injured

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The collision close to Barcelona was due to brake failure

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Another Barcelona train crash leaves 22 injured

A total of 22 people have been injured, five seriously, after a freight train collided with a passenger train in Vila-seca in Tarragona near Barcelona on Sunday night, June 12. Shortly before 10pm a freight locomotive rammed into a Rodalies de Catalunya regional train that was travelling between Barcelona and Tortosa, Renfe reported in a statement.

Adif later confirmed via Twitter that the collision was due to a brake failure on the freight train, but that an investigation has been opened to establish the details of the accident, which thankfully didn’t result in fatalities.

A similar incident in Barcelona last month had a far more tragic outcome: 85 people were injured and the driver lost his life when a freight carriage derailed and smashed into a passenger train just outside the station in the Sant Boide Llobregat area of the city.

One track remained completely closed on Monday morning as rescue workers attended to the injured and technicians removed the damaged locomotives, while the circulation of trains on lines R15, R16 and R17 between Tarragona and Reus was resumed at around 6am on Monday morning.

The five seriously injured passengers were transferred to the Tarragona hospitals of Santa Tecla and Joan XXIII and those with only minor wounds were treated at the centres of Salou, Cambrils and Vila-seca in Tarragona; seven people were treated at the scene of the accident without requiring further medical attention.

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