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Descriptions of what happened in the train accident in Andalusia are horrific, leaving behind 39 dead and 152 injured, while the number of victims is not final, according to authorities.
"The driver was thrown dozens of meters from the cabin," railway technicians at the scene in Adamuz say of one of the confirmed victims, a 28-year-old who, despite his young age, had experience driving high-speed trains.
While the cause of the derailment of the rear Alvia train is still under investigation, technicians from the affected companies and the competent Spanish body Adif are analyzing possible causes and, urgently, working to remove the damaged trains from an inaccessible area.
Initial expert assessments are pessimistic: "It will take days and weeks to restore traffic on this line. Removing trains will be costly and 400 meters of line have been severed. We have never seen anything like this before," one of the technicians sent to the scene of the railway tragedy told EL MUNDO.
They compare it to the terrible Angrois accident in 2013 (79 dead), when the train derailed on a sharp curve due to excessive speed. "It's much worse than Angrois," they repeat.
The collision of two trains at speeds of over 200 kilometers per hour was an explosion beyond imagination. The driver of the Alvia, a train manufactured by CAF, did not have time to brake because suddenly the last two carriages of the Iryo, which was crossing the apparently parallel lines, heading towards Madrid, entered his lane.
There is confusion regarding the information indicating the speed of the trains at the time of the collision.
At the time of the collision, the two trains were travelling at speeds of over 190 km/h, sources at the Spanish transport ministry told Sky News. The Iryo train, which derailed first, was travelling at around 220 km/h, while the second train the derailed train collided with was travelling at around 193 km/h. The collision took place in less than 30 seconds.
However, earlier, the president of Spain's state-owned national railway company explained that this could not have been due to a speed problem, because the data from the two trains showed that they were travelling "at a lower speed than that foreseen on this part of the network".
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