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IrelandMadrid clashes and driver radio feature in Spain crash report
The New York Post pairs street confrontations with a driver's account of a signaling-system problem before the fatal collision.
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Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 535,578 views a day, 33 times a normal first day on this channel (16,378).
Clashes ERUPT in Spain After High-Speed Train Crash Kills 69 People
A train driver reports that he cannot restart the LZB signaling system and remains stopped at an entry signal. That radio exchange is a central detail in the New York Post's report on Spain's fatal high-speed train collision, which drew roughly 270,000 views in eight hours, far beyond the channel's usual start for a Short.
The report opens with Madrid street clashes, showing police using tear gas and rubber bullets as demonstrators throw bottles and flares near the Transportation Ministry. The Post describes the unrest as a demand for accountability over the crash in Toledo province.
It then turns to aerial images of the wreckage and the driver's communication with the command center. According to the report, another train was allowed to proceed at normal speed, an instruction Transport Minister Óscar Puente described as inexplicable. The exchange itself does not establish responsibility for the collision.
The video reports dozens killed and more than a hundred injured. It closes with rescue efforts and the announcement that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez suspended campaign events and declared three days of national mourning.
Spain's minister of transport and sustainable mobility since 2023, and a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).
More on Wikipedia ›Spain's prime minister since 2018. He also leads the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), serving as its secretary-general since 2017.
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- Channel
- New York Post
- Subscribers
- 2,610,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 30,453,987
- Channel views, pace per day
- 3,157,229 (on a normal day: 4,405,594)
- Video published
- October 29, 2026
- Video views so far
- 267,820 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 535,578
The numbers
The Spain report drew an unusually large early audience for a New York Post Short, even while the channel's overall daily views were below their usual pace.
