It was the last week of July 2013. An ultramodern, high speed passenger train neared the end of a six-hour trip from Madrid to the northwest Spanish city of Ferrol. The train entered a long, steep curve on the outskirts of Santiago de Compostela. Those of us watching the slow motion security camera video realized immediately that this was not going to end well. The train was traveling 120 miles per hour, more than twice the speed limit. About half-way through the curve, a passenger car in the middle of the train began to float off the tracks and drift toward a high concrete, retaining wall. The cars hooked to that errant carriage followed. In a matter of seconds, all of the train’s cars were tossed about like so many trash cans in a high wind. Seventy-nine people were killed and 140 were i…