Santiago rail tragedy: Train driver said bend was 'impossible' to negotiate safely
Friday, September 6, 2013 @ 12:35 PM
A VOICE recording of the driver of the train which derailed outside Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia, killing 79 people reveals that Francisco José Garzón del Amo thought the bend where the accident happened was 'humanly impossible' to navigate.
Speaking of the notorious curve in the track in Angrois, a village four kilometres outside of the pilgrims' cathedral city, Garzón del Amo said: “It's inhuman. God, they shouldn't be allowed to do stuff like this. We're only human...”
He also repeated over and over again that he was praying nobody had been killed.
“They will be in my conscience forever, poor passengers,” said the driver.
“I've told them time and time again, the security people, that this bend is dangerous and that one day, one of us is going to slip up and we'd be done for. And it had to be me whom it happened to.
“I should have gone down to 80 kilometres per hour and I went down to about 190 or something like that.”
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