China High-Speed Rail Crash Likely Caused by Signal Flaw
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A Chinese high-speed railway crash that killed 39 people was likely caused by a design flaw in a signaling system, state-run Xinhua News Agency said, citing a preliminary investigation by the Shanghai Railway Bureau.
Duty officers in Wenzhou, the station closest to the site of the July 23 crash in southeast China, also didn’t know that the signals could be wrong and weren’t focused enough on safety, the report said, citing An Lusheng, head of the Shanghai bureau, which oversees rail operations in the area of the accident.