Video: Spain train crash driver admits speeding in emergency call recording Obtained and released by Spains' El Pais newspaper, the recording reveals Francisco Jose Garzon telling a colleague that he had been travelling at over double the speed allowed when his train crashed near Santiago de Compostela on July 24. In the call, recorded shortly after the crash with Garzon still stuck in the cabin, the driver is heard to say: "There must be many injured, it (train) has turned over," He carries on: "It's because I got distracted and I had to be going at 80 but I was going at 190, something like that. I had already mentioned this to the safety people, that this (curve) was dangerous, that we would get distracted one day and that would be it. The eight carriage train carrying 218 passengers was travelling at 153kph (95mph) when it flew off the tracks on route from Madrid to El Ferrol in Galicia. Mr Garzon has been named a suspect in the investigation and is facing 79 charges of manslaughter due to negligence as well as numerous counts of bodily harm.