Jul
30
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAING (ATLAS/CNN) – Black box recorders are providing new details about a deadly train derailment in Spain last week that killed 79 people.
According to the Superior Tribunal of Galicia, the data recorders reveal the train conductor was on the phone and the train was going about 95 miles-per-hour when it derailed on July 24.
The driver was on the phone with railway staff at the time of the wreck.
The speed limit for the bend of the track where the crash happened is 49 miles-per-hour.
The driver is charged with 79 counts of reckless homicide.
About 70 others injured in the crash remain hospitalized.
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