Spanish train crash driver refuses to answer questions The driver of the train that derailed in northern Spain, killing 78 people, admitted in the aftermath of the crash that he had made a mistake and wanted to die, it has been claimed. Francisco Jose Garzon de Amo, 52, escaped from the wreckage of the country's worst rail disaster in almost 70 years with only light injuries and is now under police guard in his hospital bed. Pictures on Friday showed the moment he was led away from the scene - past the bodies of the dead and wounded - by rescue workers. As he realised the enormity of the crash, he is alleged to have said: "I f---ed it up. I want to die. Driver: Francisco Jose Garzon de Amo is led away. Mr Garzon was formally placed under arrest on Friday "on suspicion of a criminal act linked to responsibility for the accident." In recorded transcripts of calls from the train cab to rail officials, he reportedly admitted in the moments after the crash that he had been driving at 190km/h in a zone restricted to 80km/h. The driver, who was one of two at the controls during the train's journey from Madrid to Ferrol in north-western Spain, suffered a head wound needing nine stitches. A police spokesman said Mr Garzon was refusing to respond to questions. A judge is due to visit him in hospital to take his sworn statement when he is "sufficiently recovered." He could face manslaughter charges. On Thursday, it emerged that he had previously boasted of speeding on his Facebook page. At least 78 people died as a result of the crash, 71 at the scene and a further seven from their injuries when they reached hospitals. Authorities described 31 others - including four children - as being in "a critical condition." The death toll was revised down from 80 after forensic experts determined that body parts originally thought to be from different people were from the same victims. At least 10 of the bodies were so mutilated that they needed DNA analysis before formal identification could take place. The roll call of the dead began to emerge on Friday with photographs of the victims and the circumstances that led them to be on the train. Lidia Martin and her two-year-old daughter, Daniela, were among the dead. The father and a son survived. Antonio Jamardo, a Spaniard in his 40s, was travelling to attend the wedding of his brother on Saturday. Instead the family gathered the night before for a funeral. One of the first on the scene, fireman Jaime Tizon, 38, described the heartbreaking search through the wreckage for survivors. "I saw a pushchair and I rushed in to look for the baby but it wasn't there - the train carriage seemed empty," he said. Then at the end of the carriage in a corner I found a little child curled up in the arms of his mother. They were both dead. Laura Lopez, 14, escaped death but her mother Elisa, 46, and older brother Tomas, 21, died. A judicial investigation and one by Spain's Ministry of Transport have begun. Information from the black box recorder confirmed the train had been travelling at 190km/h when it entered the curve on the approach to Santiago de Compostela, sources close to the investigation said.