Spanish train crash: investigators say driver got three speed warnings
Court statement says tests on black box data recorders show last warning came 250 metres before curve where train crashed
Tributes left in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, to victims of the train crash. Photograph: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images
Investigators say the driver of a Spanish train that crashed, killing 79 people, received three warnings to reduce speed in the two minutes before the train hurtled off the tracks.
A court statement made on Friday revealed the driver was talking on the phone to a colleague when he received the first automatic acoustic warning in his cabin of a sharply reduced speed zone ahead.
The statement said police forensic tests on the train's black box data recorders showed the last warning came just 250 metres before a dangerous curve where the accident occurred last week in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. At that point, the train was going at 121mph (195km/h) when the speed limit was 50mph. The train derailed at 111mph.
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