# Spain’s rail safety system went down before a crash that killed 69 — its transport minister calls 170 outages this year ‘normal’

- Source: Fortune | FORTUNE
- Published: 2026-10-30T17:35:40+00:00
- Category: Business
- Original: https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/spain-train-crash-rail-safety-system-170-outages-normal/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/spain-s-rail-safety-system-went-down-before-a-crash-that-killed-69-its-c1ff03/

Spain’s transport minister has laid most of the blame on a traffic controller’s poor judgment for Wednesday's collision in Toledo province, which killed 69 people.

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