Spain train driver said he could not brake THE driver of a train which derailed in Spain killing 79 people said minutes after the crash that he was going fast and could not brake, a witness says. Local resident Evaristo Iglesias said he rushed to the scene of Wednesday's crash in the town of Angrois near Santiago de Compostela and spoke to the driver as he accompanied him to a stretch of flat land where other injured people were being laid out. "He said he had to brake to 80 (kilometres an hour) and couldn't, that he was going fast," Iglesias told private television station Antena 3. He kept saying 'I want to die! I want to die! I don't want to see this! I want to die!. This is what he kept repeating. Pictures taken after the accident show Iglesias and another man accompanying the driver, who was bleeding heavily from a gash to his head, away from the crash site. Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said driver, Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, faced possible charges of reckless homicide over Spain's deadliest rail accident since 1944 amid reports that he was speeding at the time of the accident. El Pais newspaper, citing investigation sources, reported that he told railway officials by radio the train had taken the curve at 190km/h - more than double the 80km/h speed limit for that section of track. A young passenger on the train said just before the crash the display panel in her carriage showed it was travelling at 200km/h. We just came out of a tunnel and my boyfriend told me: 'We are going at 200 kilometres an hour'. So I looked and it was true," Carla Serrano told public television TVE. There were dead people on the track. The driver was taken to a police station on Saturday after being discharged from hospital where he reportedly received nine stitches to his head. He was due to appear on Sunday before a judge who will decide whether to press formal charges.