Spain train crash: driver had boasted about speeding on Facebook page Francisco Jose Garzon de Amo, 52, a train driver with 30 years experience, was under police guard in hospital on Thursday night after being placed under investigation over Spain's worst rail disaster for almost 70 years. He escaped with only light wounds in a crash that injured more than 130. In one posting, he was alleged to have said: "It would be amazing to go alongside police and overtake them and trigger off the speed camera." The comments were posted beneath a photograph of a train's speedometer clocking 200 km/h (124 m/h). Ha ha ha, That would be a lovely fine for Renfe (the state-owned train company). One of his friends commented: "You are going way too fast - Braaaaaaake!!" Other media reports suggested that in the aftermath of the crash, Mr Garzon shouted into a phone: "I've derailed! What do I do?. One of the drivers is said to have admitted to rail officials that the train was travelling at 190 (km/h - 118m/h) in the moments before the accident. The service, from Madrid, was reportedly running late at the time. Investigators were last night trying to establish why the train was going so fast and why security devices to keep speed within permitted limits had not worked.