Spain crash: Driver on phone
Madrid – A Spanish court says “black box” data recorders show that a train driver was on the phone and travelling at 153km/h, almost twice the speed limit, when the train derailed, killing 79 people.
Investigators say the train had been going as fast as 192km/h shortly before the derailment and that the driver activated the brakes “seconds before the crash”.
In a statement, the court said on Tuesday that the driver was talking on the phone to an official of national rail company Renfe when the crash happened and apparently was consulting a paper document at the time.
The driver, Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, has been provisionally charged with multiple counts of negligent homicide.
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