Spanish journalist Roberto Gómez was dozing on the high-speed Renfe train, when the train stopped and an announcement was relayed to passengers that there was congestion on the tracks.
The train eventually began to move again, he explained, and then the crash happened.
“The impact was terrible,” he told Onda Cero radio. “You can imagine, the carriage is completely destroyed. All the suitcases are all over the wrecked carriage.”
Gómez suffered only minor injuries but described another passenger falling on top of him and sustaining a deep gash on his head.
“We were able to help people who had suffered severe blows to their chest and ribs,” he said.
In the last carriage of the Renfe train, Miguel Ángel Pérez observed a similar scene.
“It was a terrible crash. The carriage partially overturned,” he told Spanish TV program La Hora de La 1. “Luckily there were few people standing,” he said.
Passengers then jumped out of the carriage through the windows.
