Jul
30
The conductor of a Spanish train that derailed, killing 79 people, was on the phone and travelling almost twice the speed limit when the accident happened, The Associated Press reports.
The train’s black box data recorder revealed that Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, was travelling at about 152 km/h shortly before the derailment and was talking on the phone to a rail official, a Spanish court heard Tuesday.
The court also heard that he slammed on the brakes just seconds before the crash.
Amo has been charged with multiple counts of negligent homicide.
Aside from the dead, nearly 100 people were injured when the high-speed passenger train came off the tracks near the city of Santiago de Compostela, 95 kilometres south of El Ferrol in the Galicia region last Wednesday.
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