Spain takes clothes of mourning after the railway great catastrophe past 70 years, which occurred Wednesday evening. At least 80 people died and 143 were injured when a passenger train which run with more than twice the speed allowed on the route Madrid – Ferrol (Galicia region) has derailed on the outskirts of Santiago de Compostela.
Alvia high-speed train, on which there were 218 passengers and four employees of the railway company Renfe, was going, according to statements made even the conductor, about 190 km / h on a section where the limit was 80 km / h Surveillance footage shows how the train enters a curve with high speed, and some wagons come off the rails as the train overturns and the second locomotive on fire.
What followed was a real doomsday scenario. Sickle bodies were scattered around the railway line, a wagon had been thrown on a slope near the homes, and residents rushed to help victims caught between the components of wagons, while the accident scene was increasingly surrounded by flames and smoke. “People were shouting. Everybody went to look for blankets and towels to help the wounded. Nobody has ever seen anything like this, “said Maria Teresa Ramos, a woman aged 62, who lives a few meters from the crash site. Long column of ambulances, with hazard warning lights on, immediately entered into a race against time to evacuate the wounded. During the night, all roads around were studded of ambulances with sirens blaring, while on the track, rescue team members attempting to make his way through the wreckage. Available to family was made a municipal building where emergency group, consisting of 41 volunteer psychologists began counseling people in shock. After repeated calls made to television, hundreds of Spaniards were sitting in line at the hospital to donate blood. “There were times when there were 500 people waiting to donate,” said medical sources.
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“I go with the 190!” One of the train drivers remained trapped in the cabin after the impact and communicated through the station happened. “We are people,” he kept repeating, write “El Pais”. “I hope there dead because I will have on my conscience,” said the man who is driving the locomotive. Before the derailment, the driver announced on the radio speed of 190 km / h, in short time announced 200 km / h and A Grandeira curve where the accident occurred, repeated that it was 190 km / h “I go with the 190,” the man sent by the station, according to Superior Court of Galicia, will be questioned as a defendant. Head of the Spanish state railway company announced yesterday morning that the train derailed “had no operational problem” and recently had the technical inspection. Spanish investigators have already started an investigation, and yesterday managed to recover black box of the train, which is to be analyzed by experts.
“Excess speed during a turn, the possible cause of the accident,” writes the daily El Pais. Citing sources close to the investigation, the newspaper said that at the time of the accident, trains run at a speed of 180 km / h on a section where the limit was 80 kilometers per hour. “It’s a very complicated curve very closely. Therefore at the place where train derailed, it is forbidden to circulate with over 80 miles per hour,” added El Pais. The accident happened on a section of high-speed rail in a corner, about four miles from the station to Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage town world famous. A spokesman for Renfe, the Spanish rail company said “that an investigation is ongoing.” “We must wait” to know the causes of the accident, “we will soon find our analysts will examine the speed when the train black boxes,” he added.
The Spanish authorities have determined that rail accident that killed 80 people, and another 140 were injured, occurred only because of the speed. Train Conductor used to go only at excessive speeds and even boasted this on social networks. Francisco Jose Garzon of Amo, aged 52, one of the conductors of the train that has derailed Wednesday in Spain and crashed into a concrete wall, used to boast that was going with speed. When a derailed train was going at a speed of about 190 kilometers per hour and was in a dangerous curve, zone speed limit 80 km / h, near the city of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. Francisco Jose Garzon of Amo (pictured right)
has over 30 years experience as a train conductor and is now hospitalized under police guard. He escaped with minor injuries in this terrible accident. It would be great to go alongside the police, to overcome and trigger speed camera sensors, “wrote the conductor under a picture he posted, where you can see the dial that shows the speed of a train was going at the moment with 200 kilometers per hour. “Ha ha ha, it would be a wonderful fine for Renfe (the Spanish state railway company),” he continued in another message.
A week of mourning in Galicia “I speak to relatives and friends of the dead, the wounded and all those who have fallen victim to this unfortunate event, as humans and Spanish excites us and fills us with pain and sadness, and I want to send affection and solidarity of the royal family, “said king, who yesterday afternoon traveled to Santiago de Compostela, along with his wife. Following the tragedy, the EU considered as the most serious accident in Europe in the last 15 years (after the worst rail disaster in Enschede, Germany, on 3 June 1998, when 101 people died) in Spain will be three days of mourning, as Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced that traveled to the accident site. Galician authorities have decided to cancel celebrations dedicated to St. James, patron of Spain, and had declared seven days of mourning.