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Investigators have found that a high-speed rail crash that killed 40 people in China and provoked public outrage was “completely avoidable,”<\/strong> the official China Daily newspaper reported on today.<\/p>\n

The accident “should not have happened,” <\/strong>the paper quoted government minister for work safety Luo Lin, who is heading the investigation team, as saying.<\/p>\n

The initial conclusions come after investigators into the July 23 collision of two high-speed trains performed a simulation of the events leading up to the disaster, in which 40 people were killed and nearly 200 injured.<\/p>\n

Describing the accident as “completely avoidable”, <\/strong>Luo told the paper the probe had found design defects that were likely to have caused equipment failures, and that emergency plans were also deficient, but did not elaborate.<\/p>\n

The disaster on the outskirts of the eastern city of Wenzhou was a major embarrassment to the Chinese government, which had made the construction of the world’s biggest high-speed rail network a key political goal.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Luo’s comments came a day after the government said it was suspending approval of new railway construction projects and ordered that the maximum speed of trains on the newly-built lines be lowered by as much as 20 percent.<\/p>\n

Today, a state-owned manufacturing company said it was recalling 54 bullet trains on the newly opened high-speed link between Beijing and Shanghai for safety checks.<\/p>\n

China’s government has also said it will reduce its train fares by five percent in a move believed to be aimed at attracting commuters back to the country’s beleaguered rail system.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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