Gelida wall collapse followed inspections that found no safety risk, Spanish government says

Spain's transport minister Óscar Puente said on Friday that the wall that collapsed and caused the fatal rail accident in Gelida fell under the responsibility of the Directorate-General for Highways, as an "element associated" with the road network since November 2021, when the AP-7 motorway concession expired.

Puente said the wall underwent two basic inspections, in May 2023 and August 2024, and a "higher-level" inspection in February 2025.

None of those checks, he added, detected "any incident or significant impact indicating any risk."

The minister made the clarification after the leader of the conservative People's Party (PP), Alberto Núñez Feijóo, criticised him for failing until now to determine who owned the wall.

From the time of the accident until Friday, the ministry had said it did not yet know whether responsibility lay with rail infrastructure manager Adif or with the highways authority.