Spain Train Crash Driver: New Recording

The driver of a train which crashed in northern Spain killing 79 people admitted to speeding at more than twice the limit in a phone call in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.

A recording has emerged in Spanish media in which Francisco Garzon is heard telling a colleague he had been distracted and had been travelling at 190kph (118mph) instead of 80kph (50mph).

In the audio released by Spain's El Pais newspaper, Garzon also said he had complained on previous occasions of the risks posed by the 'inhuman' curve where the train derailed on July 24, near Santiago de Compostela in the north west of the country.

The train was carrying 218 passengers from Madrid when it hurtled off the tracks and slammed into a concrete wall causing some carriages to flip over and catch fire.

Scores of people died when the train crashed in northern Spain

Garzon has been charged by Magistrate Luis Alaez with "79 counts of homicide and numerous offences of bodily harm, all of them committed through professional recklessness".

He is not in jail as he is not considered to pose a risk of absconding.

in the phone call he made to activate the emergency protocol after the Alvia train crashed, Garzon is heard saying: "There must be many injured, it (train) has turned over, I can't get out of the cabin.

"It's because I got distracted and I had to be going at 80 but I was going at 190, something like that," he added, admitting he was going too fast. "I had already mentioned this to the safety people, that this (curve) was dangerous, that we would get distracted one day and that would be it."

Following the accident, Garzon admitted in court he was going too fast.

A fireman rescues an injured child after the accident in July

Garzon, in his phone call to RENFE, the train company, expressed concern for the passengers and suggested the curve at A Grandeira, where the speed limit is 80, was an accident waiting to happen.

He is heard to say: "My God, I mentioned this before to the guy in safety that this is very dangerous... we are human and this can happen to us... this is curve is inhuman... with... with a warning light... it's not right, man, that they do these things, man. The driver has to be ... but we are human. It's my conscience and those poor passengers."

Meanwhile, the black box recorder showed Garzon had been on the phone to the on-board conductor shortly before the accident, and stopped speaking just 11 seconds before the derailment.

Spain is reviewing the safety of its rail system after one of the worst train disasters in the country's history.

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