Among the national tragedy shaking our country, stands out the story of 20-year-old Andreas, who helped many of his fellow travelers during yesterday’s train collision in Tempe.

A cold-blooded young man who was in the second car of the fateful IC62 described how he managed to get out of the train alive with minimal injuries, while helping other passengers to free themselves.

As the survivor of the tragedy said, he remembers how he heard a strong push, the car crawled to the side, and then a fire broke out.

“About 11:20, when I was discussing with my company who would pick me up from the train and what time we would finally arrive, because the delay was almost an hour, I felt a strong jolt. And then a “clap” was heard. Then the car was dragged and a fire started, and with it the sparks that followed from the engines. Along with this, of course, also followed vote for help and screams of panic,” he explained.

Andreas reported that he and his friends subdued the crowd and smashed the window of the van, which was already cracked. Then they threw out the suitcases so that anyone coming out of the window could land on them, since their car practically “drove” into the front one and was at a high altitude.

“One by one, first the girls and the seriously injured, and last of all, we, who received lighter injuries, jumped from a height of about three to four meters into a ditch and landed on the suitcases,” he said.

Then he was able to throw them out with his friends suitcases so that everyone who comes out of the window can land, in soft.

As for how much People managed helpAndreas said: “Of course, we helped inside car 2 and in our cabin, 9, I again helped with my friends to break free, maybe some people. I clearly remember that I pulled two or three girls from the next cabin and managed to put them in front of a window where they would jump out of.”

He remembers that most of the passengers were the youthpeople 18 – 23, and he himself was lucky that he came out of this collision unharmed, because, in his words: “I got away with it again minor injuries, minor abrasions and several first-degree burns. I don’t have anything serious.”

OUR dot it will stay forever engraved in his mind, as he mentioned, the moment when the lights went out. The beginning of a tragedy. “I will never forget when the lights went out, when the train derailed, when it did the so-called “C”. We were literally lit up by flames, sparks. And among them was, of course, suffocating smoke that reigned inside the cars, but also outside, where there was a fire in the car,” he said.

About the heroic deed of Andreas, his doctor found out. Larissa University HospitalEri Tsiastudi, who treated the young man’s wounds.