Train Derailment in France: 39 Dead – Investigation Ongoing
- The first two carriages of the Renfe train, carrying 37 and 16 passengers respectively, sustained the most damage.
- "There was a very violent impact at the back and the feeling that the whole train was going to come apart (…).
- it felt as if "an earthquake" had shaken the carriage, a journalist from public radio RNE, traveling on one of the trains, told public television TVE.
“I believe ther were deaths 3 meters away from me”: Passengers’ Accounts of the Train Collision
The first two carriages of the Renfe train, carrying 37 and 16 passengers respectively, sustained the most damage. They were thrown off the tracks and fell down a 4-meter embankment. On the othre train, Iryo, which carried approximately 300 people, carriages 6 and 8 were severely damaged in the collision.Passengers have given accounts to several Spanish media outlets.
“There was a very violent impact at the back and the feeling that the whole train was going to come apart (…). Many people were injured by shards of glass,” explained Lucas Meriako, a passenger on the Iryo train, to La Sexta television.
it felt as if “an earthquake” had shaken the carriage, a journalist from public radio RNE, traveling on one of the trains, told public television TVE. The occupants of the