Shultz James M, Garcia-Vera Maria Paz, Santos Clara Gesteira, Sanz Jesús, Bibel George, Schulman Carl, Bahouth George, Dias Guichot Yasmin, Espinel Zelde, Rechkemmer Andreas
Center for Disaster & Extreme Event Preparedness (DEEP Center), University of Miami Miller School of Medicine , Miami, FL, USA.
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Psychosocial Team, Military Disaster Relief Unit, Spanish Ministry of Defense , Madrid, Spain.
Disaster Health. 2016 Jan 8;3(1):11-31. doi: 10.1080/21665044.2015.1129889. eCollection 2016.
This disaster complexity case study examines Spain's deadliest train derailment that occurred on July 24, 2013 on the outskirts of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. Train derailments are typically survivable. However, in this case, human error was a primary factor as the train driver powered the Alvia train into a left curve at more than twice the posted speed. All 13 cars came off the rails with many of the carriages careening into a concrete barrier lining the curve, leading to exceptional mortality and injury. Among the 224 train occupants, 80 (36%) were killed and all of the remaining 144 (4%) were injured. The official investigative report determined that this crash was completely preventable.
本灾难复杂性案例研究审视了2013年7月24日发生在西班牙加利西亚自治区圣地亚哥-德孔波斯特拉市郊的西班牙最严重火车脱轨事故。火车脱轨通常是可以幸存的。然而，在这起事故中，人为失误是主要因素，因为火车司机驾驶阿尔维亚列车以超过规定速度两倍以上的速度驶入左弯道。所有13节车厢都脱轨，许多车厢冲向弯道旁的混凝土屏障，导致了极高的死亡率和受伤率。在224名列车乘客中，80人（36%）死亡，其余144人（64%）全部受伤。官方调查报告认定，这起事故是完全可以避免的。
