Spain investigators: Train driver was on phone

Spain investigators: Train driver was on phone

MADRID (AP)—The driver of the train that derailed and killed 79 people in Spain was on the phone and traveling at 95 mph (153 kph) - almost twice the speed limit - when the crash happened last week, according to a preliminary investigation released today. The train had been going as fast as 119 mph (192 kph) shortly before the derailment, and the driver activated the brakes “seconds before the crash,” according to a written statement from the court in Santiago de Compostela, whose investigators gleaned the information from two “black box” data recorders recovered from the train.