Spain High-Speed Train Crash: Injured Passengers Describe Terrifying Renfe Collision

Spanish journalist Roberto Gómez was dozing on a high-speed Renfe train when it stopped, and an announcement notified passengers of congestion on the tracks.

The train eventually began moving again, he explained, before the crash happened.

“The impact was terrible,” he told Onda Cero radio. “You can imagine—the carriage is completely destroyed, with suitcases scattered across the wreckage.”

Gómez suffered only minor injuries but described another passenger falling on top of him and sustaining a deep gash to the head.

“We were able to assist people who had suffered severe blows to their chests and ribs,” he said.

Rafael Barcelo was in one of the worst-affected carriages. A bruise on his forehead makes him one of the lucky survivors. He was having a coffee at the time of the crash and “felt a huge impact.”

“We were all thrown into the air,” he told Reuters at the crash site.

“I am reasonably okay, but my friend is in much worse condition.”

“I was traveling in coach seven, which sustained the most victims and the greatest destruction. I counted at least eight victims in that carriage,” he said, visibly shaken.

In the last carriage of the Renfe train, Miguel Ángel Pérez witnessed a similar scene.

“It was a terrible crash. The carriage partially overturned,” he told Spanish TV program La Hora de La 1. “Fortunately, few people were standing,” he said.

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