Video taking off 13x its usual first day

Spain crash survivor recalls being thrown face-first into a seat

Reuters' interview with Sebastian Herrero follows the sudden impact, the rescue efforts and the thoughts that remain after surviving.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 104,740 views a day, 13 times a normal first day on this channel (8,091).

Spanish train crash survivor recounts 'massive impact'

There was no time to brace. Sebastian Herrero says his train had been stationary for about a quarter of an hour when a sudden impact sent passengers flying through the carriage. He landed face-first against the seat ahead.

Herrero was traveling from Madrid to Seville on an early-morning Iryo service when a Renfe train struck it, according to Reuters. The collision on October 28 sent the Iryo train's final three carriages down a raised embankment and killed 69 people.

In the short interview, Herrero sits outdoors looking through photographs on his phone. Images of wrecked carriages and emergency crews accompany his account of seeing injured passengers emerge and rescuers begin recovering bodies nearby.

Reuters' report drew roughly 105,000 views in its first day, far beyond the channel's usual opening for a Short. But the interview's focus stays with Herrero's recollection, moving from the physical impact to the difficulty of making sense of his survival. He describes it as a matter of chance and says it is hard to stop thinking about what he would have left behind had he not survived.

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