China’s Fatal Bullet Train Crash: Bad Weather or Human Error?

Train crash exposes serious operational and management problems in China’s high-speed rail system.
China’s Fatal Bullet Train Crash: Bad Weather or Human Error?
Workers clear wreckage of mangled carriages after a Chinese high-speed train derailed when it was hit from behind by another express late on July 23 in the town of Shuangyu near the city of Wenzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. AFP/Getty Images
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Workers clear wreckage of mangled carriages after a Chinese high-speed train derailed when it was hit from behind by another express late on July 23 in the town of Shuangyu near the city of Wenzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province. (AFP/Getty Images)