Three Train Collisions in Less Than a Week! I don’t think this is a coincidence. This establishes a pattern.
June 23 - Nine people have been killed and about 70 injured in a subway train collision in Washington DC. After hearing that the crash was caused by a computer “failure” I immediately speculated that this was a result of a cyber-attack. I even commented that this was probably a test and will be attempted on more than one infrastructure. This is what happened next:
June 27 - Madrid train crash leaves 57 injured. The rail board, RENFE, has opened an investigation after two regional lines collided between the stations of Aluche and Fanjul at around 7:40 AM.
June 29 - Two passenger trains collided in an accident that killed three people and injured 60 as train cars were derailed and nearby houses knocked over in China. The pre-dawn crash occurred in Hunan province when a train going from the provincial capital Changsha to the southern city of Shenzhen collided with another Shenzhen-bound train.
The more recent crashes have not yet been determined to be caused by a “computer failure”, although one might suspect that human error was not involved. If this was a cyber attack, at least we know it was not originated by China, why would they crash their own trains? This leaves us with Russia and various terrorist organizations. It is unlikely that terrorists would attack China, what’s to gain? That leaves us with Russia… and if they indeed are responsible for these “accidents”, as far as I’m concerned they’ve gone quite too far in testing their cyber warfare technologies. In any case we need to get on the ball here with defending the computer infrastructure. This no longer costs time and money, it costs lives.
June 30 - ROME – A rail car filled with liquefied natural gas exploded when a freight train derailed in the middle of a small Italian town, setting off an inferno that killed at least 10 people and injured 50 others, officials said Tuesday. Even though this doesn’t constitute another collision… it does fit the trend…
July 1 - About 800 Amtrak passengers were stuck on three northbound trains that didn’t move for about 29 hours after a freight train derailed in Georgia. At the risk of sounding redundant: the trend continues! Oh and by the way when I first saw this headline it read “Train derailment in Georgia”… I immediately thought it was the Country not the State, still this is now happening daily! Was this last derailment a not so “subliminal” message telling us who the culprit is and why they’re mad?
