'An absurdity' to blame human error: Spain's deadly train crash 'should never' have happened

Home Spain To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: © France 24 06:07 Issued on: 29/10/2026 - 18:15 Following Spain's deadly high-speed train crash, Delano D'Souza is joined by Francisco Badea, Director of FEM Expert Engineering, Railway Structural & PRM Certification Expert. Batea challenges explanations that reduce railway disasters to isolated human mistakes. “It is basically an absurdity to say that it depended on one person and one human mistake,” he argues, emphasizing that modern railway networks operate through multiple layers of protection, including automated safeguards, train-detection technologies, operational protocols and institutional oversight. “The system has been designed in a way that this type of accident should never happen.” Keywords for this article Video content Video Spain Video content Video Spain Video content Video France Video content Video Spain Video content Video Europe Video content Video Spain Video content Video Spain Video c...