At a station close to Barcelona on Wednesday, a train collided with the rear of another, inflicting light injuries on more than 150 individuals, according to officials and Spain’s Renfe rail operator.
The train was travelling extremely slowly when the incident happened just before 8:00 am (0700 GMT), according to the SEM regional emergency services, and the majority of people were left with bumps and bruises.
“There was a collision between two trains at 7:50 am at the Montcada i Reixac-Manresa station, on the line heading in to Barcelona, that’s to say one train ran into the back of another,” a spokesman for the state rail operator told AFP.
At Montcada station, which is about 10 kilometers (six miles) north of Barcelona, a regional fire service spokesperson told reporters that the moving train had collided with “the back part” of a parked train.
The train was moving “very slowly (when the collision occurred) but people who were standing up fell over and hurt themselves,” Joan Carles Gomez, an emergency services official told reporters at the scene.
“We have examined 155 people who were affected, of which 14 were taken for further treatment but none are seriously injured,” he said.
“We’re talking about many bruises and some head injuries, but nothing serious.”
He said those taken for further treatment were being “checked at a local health centre… to rule out any fractures”.
He said Renfe had started an investigation into what happened and that rail traffic along the line had been suspended for several hours in both directions.
