The Greek Train Crash
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Apparently, on a double-track mainline, a passenger train was diverted to the OTHER track, where it collided, head-on, with a freight train at 87 mph. The last number I heard was 43 dead, many of them students headed for holiday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64820085
The incident happened just before midnight on Tuesday. A passenger train carrying 350 people collide with a freight train after both ended up on the same track - causing the front carriages to burst into flames.
A 59-year-old station master in Larissa has been charged with manslaughter by negligence and is due to appear in court on Thursday. He has denied any wrongdoing, blaming the crash on a technical fault.
The country's transport minister has resigned over the incident, saying he would take responsibility for the authorities' "long-standing failures" to fix a railway system that was not fit for the 21st Century.
Meanwhile, the government has promised an independent investigation that it promises will deliver justice.
But Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis's suggestion that "tragic human error" was to blame has caused anger.
Sounds to me like this was a dispatcher ("Station master?") error.
The US has implemented PTC (Positive Train Control) in the last decade or so. PTC is supposed to prevent stuff like this.
