Antonio Acedo Meneses and Daniel Muñoz Cob died when the AVE 2080 they were driving collided with a stationary Iryo at Urda. Seventeen minutes had passed since Atocha control told them to resume their journey.
Laura Higuera of the Centro de Regulación de Atocha says recordings between controllers and train drivers should not have been released. Renfe and Iryo set up separate helplines for people affected by the Urda crash.
RTVE is extending its coverage of the Urda train disaster on Thursday, dropping three programmes from La 1. laSexta has also suspended Zapeando, while Mediaset says its schedules will remain unchanged.
Vázquez was found after Curro Vázquez and Fran spent 24 hours searching near the Urda crash site. He had been travelling to Seville to assess bulls for matador Pablo Aguado.
The singer has called the Toledo crash an «Injusticia» and urged thorough checks of modern infrastructure. Investigators have yet to establish the cause of the collision.
Iryo chief Fabrizio Favara warned senators that LZB disconnections could stop trains and delay their restart. Twenty-three days later a failure preceded the Urda collision which left 69 dead and more than 200 injured.
Renfe has halted high-speed ticket sales between Madrid and Andalusia through 13 December as rail services remain suspended. Iberia is adding three flights on Thursday and coach firms say some have quintupled available seats.
The council has cancelled two events organised by its Youth Department: a ‘Blood on the Clocktower’ role-playing session and a family Halloween party. The decision follows the Toledo rail accident and Spain’s official mourning.
At least 68 bodies had been found after the train disaster in Urda, Toledo, but only two victims were identified on Wednesday. Families travelled to the area and contacted hospitals as they searched for missing passengers.
Fátima Báñez, Spain’s employment minister from 2011 to 2018, died aged 59 in the Toledo rail crash. She was in the last carriage of an Iryo train travelling to Seville for a business event.
Railway engineer Carlos Sánchez de Roda says the Urda crash may have involved a failure of the ASFA backup system as well as the LZB. He argues trains should not resume after a safety-system fault at an operator’s discretion.
Renfe’s 24-hour drivers’ strike runs from 00:01 to 23:59 on October 29. Minimum services average 73% on Alta Velocidad and Larga Distancia, while disruption after the Urda accident may bring further changes.
Psychologists in Castilla-La Mancha and Madrid say support for survivors and relatives must be tailored to each person. Emotional problems may surface weeks or months later, even when the first reaction seems reassuring.
At least 68 people were killed when a Renfe high-speed train collided with a stationary Iryo train in Toledo. Those identified include Civil Guard officer José Manuel and tax inspector Antonio Montero Domínguez.
The judge has barred unauthorised access to a two-kilometre stretch of the Madrid-Seville high-speed line after the Urda crash. Toledo Judicial Police will secure recovered black boxes for analysis.
Fátima Báñez was travelling on the Iryo train involved in the crash between Urda and Los Yébenes in Toledo. The PP and CEOE said they had no confirmed news of her at the time. She was bound for a business event in Seville.
CSIF accuses Óscar Puente of singling out an Adif traffic manager before the investigation is complete and calls for his resignation. The union also cites shifts of up to 12 hours and five consecutive nights.
Recordings indicate the AVE was cleared to move at normal speed while the Iryo remained unable to restart. The collision followed about five minutes after a later call to the stopped train.
Semaf is proceeding with a 24-hour Renfe strike on Thursday, 29 October, despite the Urda collision. Around 6,000 workers are called out; minimum services range from 26% for freight to 75% on peak Cercanías routes.
A judge has ordered the seizure and custody of any black boxes found on the trains involved in the Urda rail crash. Access is barred along two kilometres of the Madrid-Seville high-speed line in both directions.
Iberia has capped fares to and from Andalusia through 8 November at €99 in economy and €149 in Business per journey. It has also added more than 520 seats on Madrid flights to Malaga and Seville.
Two trains collided near Los Yébenes on the Madrid-Seville line, derailing four carriages. The reported toll is 68 dead and nearly 200 injured; the whereabouts of Telecinco reporter Raúl Triguero remain unknown.
Hundreds of farmers and about 500 tractors reached Madrid after organisers cancelled their march following the railway disaster in Toledo. The rally ended at Plaza de Colón without reaching the Agriculture Ministry.
At least 68 people have died after two high-speed trains collided in Urda, Toledo. Town halls across Spain held a minute of silence as searches continued and protests called for accountability.
The investigating judge has barred outsiders from a 2km stretch of the Madrid-Seville high-speed line in both directions after the Urda accident. Toledo Judicial Police will take custody of recovered train black boxes for analysis.
Nacho Abad wept at the close of En boca de todos after hours of coverage of the Urda rail disaster. He said his son had asked him to avoid a train journey to Marbella that weekend. The programme reported 64 deaths.
An AVE collided with a stationary Iryo near Urda at 8:54 after Adif control told trains to resume normal running. The Iryo driver had reported six minutes earlier that she remained stopped at a signal.
At least 68 people have died in the rail accident at Urda in Toledo. Alberto Núñez Feijóo is calling for an independent review of the entire rail network, alongside government and judicial investigations.
Andalusia’s president has called for an immediate inspection of every railway in the region after the Toledo collision. He says two crashes on the Madrid-Andalusia high-speed route killed at least 114 people in nine months.
A train collision near Toledo has brought Óscar Puente’s Renfe joke back under scrutiny. The Adamuz victims’ association had condemned the sketch as a mockery; by 10:30 on Wednesday Civil Protection reported 46 deaths.
Madrid’s medical strike committee has called off the planned 29 and 30 October stoppages after the Toledo rail crash. Metges de Catalunya and Sindicato Médico Avanza say their indefinite actions will continue.
At least 32 people have died after two trains collided in Toledo. Two carriages fell down an embankment, and high-speed services between Madrid and Andalusia were suspended in both directions.
At least 30 deaths were officially counted after two Iryo and Renfe trains collided in Urda. Hospitals appealed for blood donors; rail operators and Castilla-La Mancha set up helplines, while the Guardia Civil opened DNA offices for close relatives.
The report said the former minister was travelling to a CEA business event in Seville and remained unlocated at the time. It gave a toll of 50 but no calendar date for the collision.
At least 30 people have died after an AVE struck a stationary Iryo near Urda in Toledo. Early hypotheses point to human error after the LZB signalling system failed and control switched to manual operation.
