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China Train Crash ‘Could Have Been Avoided,’ Safety Agency Says
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A high-speed train crash that killed 40 people in China last month “could have been avoided,” according to the agency leading the official investigation.
The crash exposed faults in the design of the signaling system that was blamed for the accident as well as shortcomings in emergency and safety-management systems, Huang Yi, a spokesman for the State Administration of Work Safety, said in an interview yesterday with state-run Xinhua News Agency. He didn’t elaborate on the flaws identified.