Dozens die as Spanish train derails

[Minnie]

I just saw the video of the derailment. Holy christ.

[simmonjam1]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...erailment.html

Francisco Jose Garzon, one of the drivers on the train which crashed, leaving up to 141 people injured including one Briton, is reported to have posted a picture on the site of a train speedometer at 125mph last year.
According to reports he also boasted about how fast he was going. The webpage has disappeared after images appeared on Spanish TV and newspaper websites.
Alongside the photo, which was published in March last year, he wrote: 'What joy it would be to get level with the police and then go past them making their speed guns go off. Ha ha!.'



Crazy.

[OffsideSpecialist]

Originally Posted by simmonjam1

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...erailment.html

Francisco Jose Garzon, one of the drivers on the train which crashed, leaving up to 141 people injured including one Briton, is reported to have posted a picture on the site of a train speedometer at 125mph last year.
According to reports he also boasted about how fast he was going. The webpage has disappeared after images appeared on Spanish TV and newspaper websites.
Alongside the photo, which was published in March last year, he wrote: 'What joy it would be to get level with the police and then go past them making their speed guns go off. Ha ha!.'



Crazy.

Reading that, I can't help but think of that Italian cruise ship captain...

[jammies]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I heard this morning that the engineer is under criminal investigation, they estimate that he was doing nearly twice the recommended speed when he hit that corner.

He was probably stuck behind some busybody in the fast lane for a long time and over-reacted when he could finally pass.

[chemgear]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...ticle13495989/

The driver, Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, was talking on the phone to an official of national rail company Renfe when the crash happened and apparently was consulting a paper document at the time, the statement said. Garzon was provisionally charged Sunday with multiple counts of negligent homicide.

The driver received a call on his work phone in the cabin, not his personal cellphone, to tell him what approach to take toward his final destination. The Renfe employee on the telephone “appears to be a controller,” the statement said.

[CaptainCrunch]

So he was driving at a dangerous rate of speed while talking on a phone and reading a document. I see that a dozen times a day on the deerfoot.

The lawsuits against the driver and the company are going to be enormous.