SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, SPAIN—A Spanish train that hurtled off the rails and smashed into a security wall as it rounded a bend was going so fast that carriages tumbled off the tracks like dominoes, killing 80 people and maiming dozens more, according to eyewitness accounts and video footage obtained Thursday.
Analysis of video
images suggests the train may have been travelling at least twice the
speed limit along that curved stretch of track. The unanswered question
is: Why?
Spain’s government
said two probes have been launched into the train’s derailment Wednesday
night on its approach to this Christian festival city in northwest
Spain, where planned celebrations in honour of one of Jesus’ disciples
gave way to a living nightmare.
The regional government in Galicia confirmed that police planned to question the 52-year-old train driver, in Santiago de Compostela’s main hospital with unspecified injuries, as both a witness and as a possible suspect, but cautioned that possible faults in safety equipment were also being investigated.
The CCTV footage of the crash can be viewed below..
Culled from - thestar
The regional government in Galicia confirmed that police planned to question the 52-year-old train driver, in Santiago de Compostela’s main hospital with unspecified injuries, as both a witness and as a possible suspect, but cautioned that possible faults in safety equipment were also being investigated.
The CCTV footage of the crash can be viewed below..
Culled from - thestar
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