TRANSPORTATION: DISASTERS : TRANSPORTATION": RAILROAD: PASSENGER : COUNTRIES: SPAIN: Spain Santiago Rail-Crash Driver in New Recording

[David P. Dillard]

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TRANSPORTATION: DISASTERS :

TRANSPORTATION": RAILROAD: PASSENGER :

COUNTRIES: SPAIN:

Spain Santiago Rail-Crash Driver in New Recording

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Spain Santiago Rail-Crash Driver in New Recording

5 September 2013 Last updated at 22:41 ET

BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23982566

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A recording has emerged in Spanish media of a phone call made by a train
driver moments after his train derailed in northern Spain, killing 79
people.

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Francisco Jose Garzon is heard telling a colleague he was travelling at
190km/h (118 mph) instead of 80km/h and became distracted.

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He also said he had previously complained that the bend, where the
accident happened, was "inhuman".

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The driver and the state-owned railway firm Renfe are on trial over the
crash.

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Magistrate Luis Alaez has charged Mr Garzon with "79 counts of homicide
and numerous offences of bodily harm committed through professional
recklessness". The driver is not in jail but remains under court
supervision.

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"There must be many injured, [the train] has turned over, I can't get out
of the cabin," he is heard telling a colleague at Madrid's central
station.

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During the conversation, Mr Garzon repeatedly says "poor passengers",
adding: "I hope no-one has died."

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He also admitted going too fast at the time of the crash.

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"I got distracted and I [was meant] to be going at 80, but I was going at
190," Mr Garzon said.

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"I had already mentioned to the safety people that this [curve] was
dangerous, that one day something like this could happen."

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Judicial authorities earlier said the train was travelling at 192km/h
(119mph) on the bend where it derailed.

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Meanwhile, another recording has emerged of the driver's pre-trial
questioning, the BBC's Tom Burridge, in Madrid, reports.

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In the recording, Mr Garzon is heard giving evidence about a phone-call he
received from a train conductor moments before the crash, in which they
discussed which platform they would pull into.

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The driver told the court he lost a sense of where the train was during
the call. By the time he had engaged the train's electric and pneumatic
brakes, it was too late, Mr Garzon said.

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