The train has turned over, I can’t get out of the cabin

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

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

The train that crashed near Santiago de Compostela on July 27 was said to be travelling at more than twice the speed limit.

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

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

Crash investigators opened the train’s “black-box” data recorder to find the cause of the crash.

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

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.

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.

The investigation into the crash will also consider why there was no automatic braking system on the curve in question, our correspondent reports.

The safety mechanism has since been installed at the scene of the accident.

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