Two high-speed trains collide in Spain

🗞️ Story file #1054

Two high-speed trains collide in Spain

Oct 28, 6 AM ET to Oct 28, 8 AM ET

21outlets carried it
🫏13 · 4 · 4🐘left · center · right
2 hourson the front pages
21front pages at once, at its peak
19 minof TV captions
1radio newscast

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 28, 6 AM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Oct 28, 6 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 28, 6 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 28, 8 AM ETpeak: on 21 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 28, 6 AM to Oct 28, 8 AM ET (peak 21), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 6 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (CNN, NPR, News Nation, The Independent, USA Today, Yahoo News)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

✏️ 15 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “At least 30 killed in train collision on high-speed line in Spain” → “Latest Spain train crash”
AP (2 wordings): “Spanish authorities say 2 trains have been involved in accident” → “At least 30 dead in crash between 2 trains in central Spain, media say”
CBS News (2 wordings): “At least 10 dead as two trains crash in Spain, authorities say” → “At least 10 dead in high-speed train crash in Spain”
Financial Times (2 wordings): “At least 10 killed in collision of high-speed trains in Spain” → “At least 30 killed in collision of high-speed trains in Spain”
HuffPost (3 wordings): “10 Dead In Crash Between 2 High-Speed Trains In Spain: Reports” → “At Least 30 People Killed In High-Speed Train Collision In Central Spain”
NPR (2 wordings): “At least 10 dead in crash between 2 trains in Spain” → “At least 30 dead in crash between two trains in central Spain, media say”
News Nation (2 wordings): “Spanish media say at least 30 dead in crash between two trains in central Spain” → “At least 30 dead in crash between 2 trains in central Spain”
Newsmax (2 wordings): “At Least 10 Dead in Crash between 2 Spanish Trains in Toledo Province” → “At Least 30 Killed in Spain High-Speed Train Crash”
Newsweek (3 wordings): “BREAKING Spain High-Speed Rail Crash Leaves At Least 10 Dead: Reports” → “BREAKING Spain High Speed Rail Crash Kills At Least 30”
Reuters (3 wordings): “Two high-speed trains collide in Spain, rail operator says” → “At least 30 people killed in Spain when two high-speed trains collide”
The Guardian (3 wordings): “Spain train crash: at least 10 dead after collision in Toledo province” → “At least 30 dead and 80 injured after two trains collide in Spain”
The Independent (2 wordings): “At least 39 dead after two high-speed trains collide in Spain” → “At least 46 feared dead after two high-speed trains collide in Spain”
The Sun (3 wordings): “RAIL HORROR At least 39 killed as two high speed trains crash & carriage derails in Spain” → “DEADLY RAIL SMASH At least 50 killed after high speed trains crash in Spain & plunge off track – as horror footage shows smoking wreckage”
USA Today (2 wordings): “At least 30 dead after two high-speed trains collide in Spain in the second deadly accident in less than a year” → “At least 30 dead after two high-speed trains collide in Spain”
Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Multiple people reportedly dead after two high-speed trains collide in Spain” → “Two high-speed trains collide in Spain, killing at least 30 people”