Investigators discovered a missing segment of track at a joint, potentially causing the high-speed train to derail and leading to a tragedy that killed 40 people.
The Spanish minister admitted the collision between two high-speed trains was "very strange" as it occurred on a straight section of track that had just completed a renovation costing over 814 million USD.
A 34-year-old female driver was fined 5 million VND for driving a 5-seater car onto a prohibited railway crossing, causing the vehicle to become stuck on the tracks and forcing a train driver to make an emergency stop to avoid an accident.