Egypt: 7 dead and dozens injured after two trains collide south of Cairo | Africanews
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Four people are dead and dozens injured after two trains collided south of Cairo on Sunday. Egypt’s railway authority said a train traveling to Giza from Fayoum crashed into the rear of another service heading south from Cairo to Aswan.
  • crystalmathadept@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    Are there more accidents like this happening or are we just more aware of them?

    Didn’t this happen in Spain? How does a mistake like this happen?

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      Mostly just more aware.

      The problem in Spain is that the automatic system failed, causing trains to come to a stop, as designed. A human dispatcher granted a train permission to proceed manually, despite there being another train on the track in front of them.

      • poopkins@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Also worth mentioning that a nearly identical incident happened in January with dozens of deaths as well, and the money the EU granted at the time to improve the system and avoid another catastrophe vanished almost immediately.