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Acceleration Can't Save the China Model

A Chinese man holds up a portrait of his relative as family members of victims who died in the July 23 high-speed train collision demonstrate in the hope of learning the truth about the train collision, at a railway station in Wenzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang Province on July 27, 2011. One of China's official newspapers accused the authorities of 'arrogance' in their handling of the deadly high-speed train crash, joining a rising chorus of public fury.(STR/AFP/Getty Images) What happened around 8:29 p.m. on July 23, has been put together, piece by piece, but not in any official report. Despite a strict gag order from the Central Propaganda Department, some media outlets and netizens are still digging into the truth about the accident and assigning responsibility to guilty parties.

What Happened

The traffic controller at Wenzhou South Station found that the southbound line toward Wenzhou showed an all red signal zone. That meant there was some dysfunction of the rail or the signal. After making sure that the dysfunction was not caused by the rail but by the signal, the controller turned the control system to abnormal control and ordered the express train D3115, which waited at Yongjia Station, to go. Abnormal control is a manual control status. However, the controller didn’t order D301, which was behind D3115 and left Yongjia Station nine minutes later, to switch to the same mode. It is thought the controller must have assumed that the D301 would encounter red signals behind D3115. It didn’t. The driver of the D301 saw all green signals up until the moment he saw D3115 with his own eyes. With D301 traveling at 175 kilometers per hour (108 mph), even though the driver pulled the brake, D301 still hit D3115 at 100 kmph (62 mph). The driver was killed on impact. So, too, were at least 38 others, according to the official death toll—netizens speculate the actual death toll is in the hundreds.

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