Minister Óscar Puente made the clarification after the PP leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, criticized him for failing to define the ownership of the wall that caused the railway accident in Gelida. According to Puente, the infrastructure became the responsibility of the General Directorate of Highways as an associated element of the network since November 2021, when the concession for the AP-7 motorway expired.
Since that date, the wall was subject to two basic inspections, in May 2023 and August 2024, and a higher-level inspection in February 2025. The Minister stressed that none of these evaluations detected any issue suggesting imminent risk.
“"In these inspections, no significant incident was detected that would indicate any risk."
Puente also used the press conference to defend Adif's inspection actions on the section where the Adamuz accident occurred. He assured that in the last seven months, Adif carried out 12 tests of all kinds without registering any incident related to vibrations or track breakage, accusing Feijóo of validating certain “hoaxes.”
The Minister endorsed the conclusions of the investigation commission, which points to the main hypothesis that the track was already fractured before the Iryo train passed. He explained that heavier trains, like the Iryo, might have accentuated a small pre-existing deficiency, as the last train that passed before registered instability values that exceeded normal behavior.
