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A lottery ticket seller in southern Spain has been hailed as a hero after he spent about six hours ferrying rescuers and victims around on his quad bike after the train collision<\/a> that killed at least 41 people and injured dozens of others.<\/p>\n Gonzalo S\u00e1nchez, 43, was at home in the small town of Adamuz when the town\u2019s WhatsApp group alerted to reports of a train that had derailed nearby.<\/p>\n S\u00e1nchez sprang into action, grabbing a few tools and heading to the site in his car. He was among the first to arrive at the scene. \u201cIt\u2019s something you hope to never come across in your life,\u201d he told the broadcaster Cadena Ser. <\/a>\u201cThe images are very shocking on television, but it\u2019s worse on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n He began doing what he could to help, soon learning from passengers that a second train had been involved in the collision. \u201cIt was pitch black, and you couldn\u2019t see a thing. Nobody had noticed there were more train cars and people further down,\u201d he told El Pa\u00eds.<\/a><\/p>\n Officials later said a high-speed train carrying about 300 Madrid-bound passengers had derailed,<\/a> sending it into the path of an oncoming train carrying about 200 passengers. The impact knocked the first two carriages of the oncoming train off the track, sending it plummeting down a 4-metre (13ft) slope.<\/p>\n Alongside rescue workers, S\u00e1nchez raced to the site of the second train, about 1km away, taking in the scenes of twisted metal, scattered debris and victims pleading for help. \u201cThe scene on either side was indescribable, terrible, terrifying,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Complicating matters was the rugged terrain. The collision had taken place in a remote area where the railway tracks were hemmed in by ridges that rose up on either side.<\/p>\n S\u00e1nchez realised the all-terrain vehicle he had at home could be of use. \u201cI told them I had a quad bike and that it might be useful in terrain like that. And the rescue workers said: \u2018Yes, go ahead\u2019,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Once back on site, this time with his quad, he spent hours carefully transporting firefighters, paramedics and police along the narrow space that lay next to the tracks, as well as carrying passengers \u2013 some of whom were injured \u2013 to safety.<\/p>\n It was an echo of the outpouring of support in Adamuz, <\/a>where residents travelled to the site to help, opened their homes to victims and handed out supplies and support at a hastily erected response centre.<\/p>\n S\u00e1nchez said he continued to ferry people on his quad until 2am, when a minor bump against the door of an ambulance left it unusable. As Spain woke up to news of the devastation<\/a> on the outskirts of his town, interview requests began pouring in for the man that media were calling the \u201cquad hero\u201d of Adamuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n S\u00e1nchez shrugged off the attention, pointing instead to the hundreds of rescuers who worked throughout the night to help the hundreds of people affected by the collision. \u201cI did what anyone would have done when something like that happens,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #scene #terrifying #quad #hero #Adamuz #led #train #crash #victims #safety #Spain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A lottery ticket seller in sou… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}