Kereta api Sepanyol pemandu kemalangan dalam jagaan di hospital. Polis
mengambil pemandu kereta api Sepanyol ke dalam jagaan di hospital pada hari
Khamis selepas sekurang-kurangnya 80 orang mati apabila ia tergelincir dan
terbakar dalam kemalangan dramatik yang merupakan sumber rasmi berkata
disebabkan oleh kelajuan yang berlebihan, laporan Fiona Govan.
8 pengangkutan keretapi halaju tinggi datang dari trek hanya di luar pusat ziarah
Santiago de Compostela di barat laut Sepanyol pada malam Rabu. Galicia rantau
Mahkamah Agung berkata dalam satu kenyataan bahawa hakim menyiasat kemalangan
itu telah mengarahkan polis untuk meletakkan pemandu dalam jagaan dan mengambil
kenyataan daripada beliau. Beliau adalah di bawah siasatan rasmi, mahkamah
tersebut.
Kereta api mempunyai 2 pemandu, kerajaan Galicia berkata, tetapi ia tidak
segera jelas yang mana satu di hospital dan di bawah penyiasatan. Penyiasat
cuba untuk segera menubuhkan mengapa kereta api yang berlaku begitu pantas dan
mengapa alat-alat keselamatan untuk mengekalkan kelajuan dalam had yang
dibenarkan tidak bekerja.
Kereta api, yang dikendalikan oleh syarikat milik negara Renfe, dibina oleh
Bombardier dan Talgo dan berusia kira-kira 5 tahun. Ia mempunyai hampir
bilangan maksimum penumpang.
Spanish train crash driver in custody in hospital. Police took the driver
of a Spanish train into custody in hospital on Thursday after at least 80
people died when it derailed and caught fire in a dramatic accident which an
official source said was caused by excessive speed, reports Fiona Govan.
The eight-carriage high velocity train came off the tracks just outside the
pilgrimage centre of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain on Wednesday
night. The Galicia region supreme court said in a statement that the judge
investigating the accident had ordered police to put the driver in custody and
take a statement from him. He was under formal investigation, the court said.
The train had two drivers, the Galicia government said, but it was not
immediately clear which one was in hospital and under investigation.
Investigators were trying to urgently establish why the train was going so fast
and why security devices to keep speed within permitted limits had not worked.
The train, operated by state-owned company Renfe, was built by Bombardier
and Talgo and was around five years old. It had almost the maximum number of
passengers.
