Still the right track

Four days after the deadly bullet train accident in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, on July 23, Premier Wen Jiabao promised a "sincere and responsible account" of what had gone awry.

The findings of the official investigation have now been made public and the probe does appear to have been a sincere attempt to get to the heart of the matter.

The report, defying speculation that it would understate technical defects for fear of losing overseas orders, states that "serious design flaws" in the control equipment used at Wenzhou South Railway Station were the primary cause of the accident, but it attributes the tragedy to a concatenation of human errors.