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MORE THAN 150 people were injured today when a train ran into the back of another at a station near Barcelona, the emergency services and Spain’s Renfe rail operator said Wednesday.
A spokeswoman for the SEM regional emergency services said the vast majority of those hurt in the collision which occurred just before 8:00 am (0700 GMT) sustained light injuries, while five were in moderate condition.
“There was a collision between two trains at 7:50 am at the Montcada i Reixac-Manresa station, on the line heading to Barcelona, that’s to say one train ran into the back of another,” a spokesman for the state rail operator told AFP.
Rail traffic along the line was suspended in both directions and Renfe had opened an investigation into what happened, he said.
Que maco, a Montcada i Reixac es donen besitos els trens q arriben i els q encara no han marxat👨🏼❤️💋👨🏻
— aida🌷 (@aidaperezz__) December 7, 2022
No en serio quina por pic.twitter.com/zknD0HNQqK
“There were 155 people affected of which 150 were lightly injured and five who were moderately hurt,” a spokeswoman told AFP.
She said 18 medical units had been deployed to the area, which lies some 10 kilometres (six miles) north of Barcelona.
Martin Sánchez, a Montcada local who has been to the scene of the accident, said that the the collision happened amid foggy weather conditions, and that the train station is “on a curve.”
Sánchez said there has been a large emergency service presence in the area, but it is being widely reported that there are no severe injuries.
Additional reporting from Eimer McAuley.
© Agence France-Presse
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They’re all apart of the elite crowd, nothing to see here. So funny, the absolute scaremongering that is pumped through tv and radio and yet here they are not a bother on them.
@Euro McPúnty: Yip, it’s almost like there’s one rule for them and one for the rest of us plebs.
@Euro McPúnty: shouldn’t the be knocking on their doors?
@Optimus Prime: gardai*
@Euro McPúnty: they’re news presenters. Hardly elites.
@Euro McPúnty: They have the country in lockdown. A lot of business have not opened since March & people stuck in nursing homes not allowed to see their families. RTE have been filling our heads about how we must wash our hands, social distance etc.
This is no different than golfgate. These people are public faces & paid by the public. They have no option but to resign. Either that or open the country now & let us ordinary people get back to work & get on with our lives. They do not have a leg to stand on to lecture us anymore.
@Euro McPúnty: more nonsense, people love being angry.
@Fabio Dillon: hmmm
@Fabio Dillon: Tubs wont like that, I wonder if the Late Late show tonight will be full of usual negative stuff
Is that a mask in Williams’ right hand in that photo ? And holding it a few inches from yerwan’s gob ? Looks like he took it off for the photo maybe. Now that’s not carelessness.
@D’oh: this is just getting ridiclous and the pooulation being told to stay in wash hands etc
@Euro McPúnty: they’ve been broadcasting almost non stop since March about Covid and then this…I actually don’t listen to them anymore it’s utterly head wrecking (though I do my mask etc).
@Euro McPúnty: Sack them all!
@Euro McPúnty: they new the rules and broke them everyone sorry when they are caught get rid of them
It’s a pity George Lee wasn’t there. Would have been the icing on the cake!
@Harry Corry: George took the photos
@Harry Corry: This is an acid test for the elite in RTE. They must go. Their positions are untenable. Can you imagine if politicians or judges were caught doing this, say at a gold dinner, what these RTE stars would be saying? There has to be one rule and equality.
@Ciaran O’Mara: golf
Universities & Colleges emailing students that Semester 2 will also be online, People people being told to work from home by NPHET, People being told to stay indoors except for essentials and exercise within a 3 mile radius… Meanwhile at RTE Studios the staff are having a great life through it all with their friend’s. Id say its doing miracles for their mental healths. Who gives a s**t about the general public.. peasants is all we are to the elite.
@David Lee: Well said
@Gere: RTE TV stars browbeating the public about house parties, not adhering to the guidelines and how we should be “all in this together”.
Then they organise a party for one of their staff leaving…
More of the “do as I say, not as I do” from the elite – who themselves are the REAL pandemic in this country.
@David Lee: amen
@David Lee: why are they elite? Because they have a different job than you?
Stars?!
Sack them all.
@Jonathan: Oh look the tv licence fee just became affordable.
@Jonathan: I heard Miriam gave her socks as a going away present
We are so sorry we were caught this time, We will never be caught again LOL
Do people actually really care? Seriously! We all do it. Workplaces are like this on a daily basis. I see it myself. No lockdown 5 here at all
@Jonnie Marre: Yes we do care, considering that the hospitality section has been decimated. These are people that interview Politicians every day to pretend they are bring them to account. We want accountability now.
@Jonnie Marre: my local canteen on site has maximum 6 people at a time, the main canteen opens staggered times to serve a site off 250 to 350 people, lifts capacity 2 people at a time and no I haven’t seen anyone breaking these guidelines. People have children to go home to or elderly parents and don’t want to take a chance because WE CARE.
@Jonnie Marre: i completely understand where your coming from, we are the same at work, but then i am not funded by the state or tell people what to do and what not too do, unfortunately when you are in that position that these presenters are you need to abide by your own rules. Saying that its all gone mad
@Jonnie Marre: theres only 3 in the office we do our calls on teams even though we are In the office and keep 2 metres apart when chatting.
@Jonnie Marre: are you serious? A picture of the head guy with his arms around 2 colleagues and we can’t even hug our parents?!!! Yes I care.
The only people expected to adhere to restrictions are us regular joe soaps, the elite of this country really are something else
@Damo: And you have never broken the rules? Even once? Fair play if you haven’t.
@Sal Paradise: This is casual rule breaking over nothing of any consequence though, you could infer if someone is breaking guidelines over something as pointless as a photo that they’re probably doing it dozens or even hundreds of times each week.
@Sal Paradise: innocent until proven guilty
They party because they know its safe. Its their media propaganda thats unsafe. RTE will not allow an open debate on the virus unless the panel agree with Holohan. Varadka has said that deaths recorded for Covid are not necessarily from Covid but have tested for covid. In other words the figures are skewed.
@Jean Farrelly: do you think it’s safe to have parties and everyone hang out close together? If so then the need for social distancing must be some kind of global conspiracy invented by thousands upon thousands of mad scientists and politicians to destroy the global economy.
@Jean Farrelly: the truth.
They have lost all their credibility when trying to interview any of the politicians/judges over “golfgate” etc. If you look in the background of the photographs, there were some wearing masks and others not…some social distancing, many not….should there be resignations as many of these are well paid public figures being paid by a state subsidised organisation?
I’m just glad that I haven’t stood next to anyone at all from outside my household, including my closest friends, since March and can therefore attack these folks with unfettered righteousness and unlimited outrage safe way up here on the moral high ground… like the rest of you
@David Clements: I haven’t seen any of my friends except on Skype and have worked from home throughout each lockdown so I will be outraged at the Elite who shame the public for rising cases on the national broadcasting stations each day.
@David Lee: why have you not seen anyone? We’ve been able to socialise to differing degrees since when? May? June? I’ve been working from home since march 13th too. What’s your point there? This is ludicrous stuff. They stood together for the time it takes to take a photo. Now youre all feeding that fi1lthy rag The S*n with all the clicks they wanted . Brainwashed by the lowest common denominator faux outrage brigade….
@David Clements: Your missing the point.
@David Clements: this is what makes me laugh! We have all done it
@David Lee: You are lucky to work from home but if you worked in an office like these people do then you are going to share their airspace so posing for a 2 second photograph will have zero impact & the story is a total storm in a teacup. So enough of the elite blah blah blah nonsense please.
@David Lee: isn’t it amazing though how divided opinion is now just judging by our interaction and readers reactions. I think it’s a combination of the issues around Covid and disdain held by many for RTE generally…
@Jonnie Marre: no we haven’t.
BUT IT’S A PANDEMIC. That’s ok. They’re not young people standing outside with a takeaway pint because they can’t bear the sight of their cramped accommodation any longer. Can twitter now force rte to close or the government to impose fines?
@Critical Thinker: now there’s a kernel of a very good debate that has been ignored by the media and that is the absolute mental impossibility if not going out when you’re in your 20s and sharing with 3 or 4 other people in a gaf. Or living alone in a small apartment.
@Critical Thinker: Very true, replace the RTE staff in those posed pictures with drunk college students and imagine the uproar.
I wonder will any journalist ask NPHET what they thought of the photo like they do for the “scene” in Galway, dame lane or wherever else.
What a shower of overpaid muppets, preaching to the people, “do as I say not as I do”.
@Divad Nayr: So when news readers tell us what gas happened today on the news it is preaching?
Apologies are not enough. Absolutely disgraceful. They can’t seriously read out warnings about behaviour to their audience.
Anyone at that gathering should, at the very least, be suspended until RTÉ can convince us that they believe the advice they broadcast everyday.
@JG: We should have a hotline we can ring and report any individual in the country if they break the rules. Submit photos as evidence and demand they lose their jobs regardless of what they do.
No doubt Tubridy will still lecture the nation at the start of the Late Late Show tonight though
@John Mc Avinue: what that g0bs#ite !
Why have RTE guests travelling from all parts of this country to appear on The Afternoon Show surely this is not essential work
They are insulting the entire population of this country who are staying home and complying with rules during a lockdown in a pandemic
I am livid
Joe.duffy @rye.ie
They should be made resign like others who have made mistakes in the past. These are the people who are always baying for blood.
The amount of begrudgery towards anyone wealthy/famous on this site is sickening. This is a hurricane in a tea cup. They work together and probably posed together for the photo for a matter of seconds.
@Thomas O’ Donnell: Its the principle, people are doing their best with sacrifices and limiting social contacts, and yet here’s a crowd indoors getting all close for photos, at an event which shouldn’t be happening to begin with. I know of employees at other companies that had farewell parties over zoom. It simply is not on.
@Thomas O’ Donnell: It’s not begrudgery. It’s more antipathy.
@Thomas O’ Donnell: I don’t think they’ll be particularly worried by what’s said about them in the Journal’s comments section should they ever choose to read same, which I somehow doubt! Hard necks, jockeys nether regions, duck’s back etc.
@Paul Cunningham: but they’re in work because, like it or not, public service broadcasting is an essential service in a pandemic.are you saying they should have gone home before saying goodbye to this poor woman who deserves none of this grief
@David Clements: it is possible to say goodbye to someone from a social distance while wearing a mask.
@Thomas O’ Donnell: And we are paying our TV license for them to massage their Egos , who the ¥£>%# referred to them as “stars” ?
More proof that their is one rule for those seen as being in the higher echelons of society and another for all the minions out running the rat race every day to survive
Disappointed. An apology…empty words. I understand getting caught up in an emotionally charged situation, but if just one person, just one, spoke up it would have been different. Just so disappointed.
K
Fines of a months pay , then they will deeply regret it.
The same crowd who show lads getting takeaway pints and put the boot in.
Does this mean RTE will reinstate Sean ORourke?
ANY WONDER PEOPLE HAVE NO RESPECT FOR THESE RULES, DO AS WE SAY BUT NOT AS WE DO.
Everyone be quiet and pay your TV licence! You’re all only begrudgers. And sure the toy show is deadly craic! Did ye see it last year, Tubridy wore a funny jumper!! And all for only €160 a year. Sure ya deserve to be in jail if you can’t see the value in that
There is very little social distancing in many workplaces incl my own. The mob will be calling for resignations, sackings etc. This will not happen, nor should it. In any event the political elite will not pursue this matter as they know its a long road. RTÉs media friends will not pursue this either.
@SandraMeyler: it’s being discussed on Joe Duffy as we speak so you’re wrong to suggest “RTÉs media friends will not pursue this either”
@EillieEs: thanks Ellie, As I remember it Liveline is a phone in show so is highly likely it was a member of the public that raised the matter with Joe . I cant imagine George Doom Lee raising the matter on the news. Although I could be wrong.
Arm around his two colleagues…mask in hand on colleague’s shoulder…brilliant.
Journal, why don’t you have a poll asking should they be sacked, suspended, pay deducted, or nothing at all?
I bet half the dopes on here giving out break the rules on a daily basis.
THEY THINK THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY LIKE,WHICH PROBABLY THEY CAN…
@Pauline Fedigan: Why do you have to comment in CAPITAL LETTERS ???
Let’s stop paying the TV license
Vax party ! Oh I say
That’s why we have rising covid people like you are not thinking
Disgrace! We called for it with the other muppets, they should be fired!
If callery had to resign then so must mccullough and I callaghan. Bad law makes for hard cases. All the best in you future endeavours Miriam
Not thinking omg
Stone them unreservedly for their in human behaviour
@PAUL BOHAN: Stoning is too good for them. Hang and quarter them. Then stone each quarter and bury them separately. Then set the graves on fire
@David Clements: unconsecrated graves, obviously!
Will they have to resign their jobs for not following covid19 recommendations.After all they insist every else does.
it allright they live in there own bubble of reality anyway so they are grand
STARS ?
STARS ? Ha ha ha . that’s a joke is it ?
Just who the hell do these people think they are?
Apologised for being caught….
If I am viewing the top picture correctly…..it appears the departing employee is actually an election 2016 folder.
Not a word out of the co##upt taoiseach about , won’t say anything about he’s publicly funded buddies in RTE, hypocrite
Get over yourselves!. Storm in a teacup. Couple of people saying goodbye to a longtime colleague. It was hardly a party!!!
@Boxer Alice: lol we are adviced not bring people in to our homes and cut our contacts to two.. How manny people you think the people above met on that day.
Who dobbed in Dobbo?
STARS ?
So the departing employee was an ‘election 2016’ sign? Well that’s what the caption says.
Sure if they wore masks we wouldn’t know who they are.
That would be good though ha ha
Yawn….I think we are all guilty of it
I blame the virus
APOLOGY NOT ACCEPTED, ridiculous that they will not suffer any consequences.
Let’s have a heated debate!
STARS ?
@Tony Kennedy: You can say that again
ELITE?
Give them all a pay rise and lock up Fr. PJ in Cavan.
Was Dr. Holocaust not there.
Oh for heaven’s sake they stood beside a work colleague for 5 seconds what’s the big deal, such nonsense!
Oh for heaven’s sake they stood beside a work colleague for 5 seconds what’s the big deal, what nonsense!
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