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Spain’s rail network under scrutiny after second deadly crash in as many days
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2026
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I'm traveling to Europe and planning to use only trains to move around and I'm already stressed out that my car brained family is going to try to push me into renting a car instead.
The last wagon of the train is by far the safest. In both of these accidents, people in the last cars of all of these three trains have made it out unscathed.
Just promise to be in the last wagon. You can go to the last wagon, or to one of the last ones, even if your ticket is for another one.
Similar to planes where sitting in the seats beside the wings tends to be the safest place (due to the enhanced structure).
An average day in 2024, 54 people in the EU died in road accidents, per Eurostat.
Edit: ~~Somewhere around 40 people a day die in road accidents in the EU. (Eurostat seems to only have numbers with the actual number of dead for 2023 so far and that year I think it was something like 47 per day on average, but other sources show road deaths decreased somewhat in 2024~~.
"Trains keep crashing, my family wants to not use trains" seems like a common sense approach when the rail network in one region is having some very serious issues. Stay with trains outside of Spain but don't let train brain cross you in Spain.
Pretty sure more people die in car accidents on Spain each year that in train accidents, but we never hear about them.
Yes, quick check says 57 per week, so more than that train crash each week.
There's has been already 42 dead people for car crashes on Spanish roads this year. That looks like a very serious issue there.
https://www.dgt.es/export/sites/web-DGT/.galleries/downloads/dgt-en-cifras/24h/accidentes-trafico-24h-CC.pdf
When I went to Europe a few years ago, I found that the taxi services were really great. Like, getting a cab in Valencia was about as easy as calling an Uber while being a bit cheaper. There really is no need to rent a car.