35 dead on the high-speed trains crash at China - 24Jul2011

[im1greatman]

I live in New York and will oppose any use of "bullet trains". I do however support Maglev trains because they will not derail.

[im1greatman]

Maglev's are safer, faster and quieter. Why would someone use these glorified trolley cars?

[zzzthaoster]

i knew it was going too fast.

[ervin920]

america, u do realized that a boeing 747 crashed and killed 40 people because pin in the wing failed. u recovered from this accident and made every boeing 747 safer. china is doing the same. their is really nothing testes or simulators can do to ensure safety.

[dingyueqi]

not “Wenchuan”，it's“Wenzhou”。領導們總是­光說不做，好像用嘴皮子就能把問題解決了一樣。The spokesperson of China's Ministry of Railways is an idiot.

[Trainmaster189]

Will this stop the US from getting high speed rail?

[StandingRedPanda]

@Trainmaster189 Christ! Why do you not want US to get a high speed rail? Cause you're scared of it? Accidents happen. That's not the reason to avoid it. But otherwise high speed rail isn't that useful for the US of A because it's such a huge continent. It's only useful on the east coast and maybe from LA to SF.

[Trainmaster189]

@StandingRedPanda I am not afraid of HSR, but how many car wrecks (highways) and airliner crashes are there compared to railway accidents? In 2001, the Acela carried a lot of people right after the 9/11 attacks because the fear of terrorism and now people take the Acela due to the airlines getting expensive. I'm just only worried about HSR not coming to make America better (by creating jobs, heal congested highways, etc.).

[sohoxiang]

in fact,this is not the most advanced CRH3 high speed train in China, those two are older normal types brought from Japan, canada or germany. And the german and japan also had train crashing in their history. So let us improve the management in our train controlling systerm. Please show your compassion to these people dead, thank you , my hometown is in that province in CHINA

[savagecycle]

@sohoxiang I never heard Japanese bullet train crashed since 60's. Do some reserch before you make sound like fact witch is not fact. Chinese fake even fact?

[savagecycle]

@savagecycle Also, Cinese were claming those were all chinese original

[SPS148669]

@sohoxiang

The Chinese railway company wanted the line opened early so they took the BIG RISK of running the Japanese train and Canadian train on the same line. The two trains have different specs,track requirement and built for different weather. The Canadian train was heavier and boxier but built for a European country with long winters. Japanese train was built for warm weather, more streamlined and bit faster than Canada;s so they should have kept the 2 train sets on seperate lines.

[YamachanUS]

Same king of accident shall happen soon in China - do not use it. Never.

[tkell97]

Shouldn't it be '32 dead after the high-speed train crash in china'?

[Chris58851]

@tkell97 Death toll rise again.