Spain train crash driver ignored 3 prior warnings of over-speeding before accident

The crash investigators of the Spanish train derailment case have said that the driver had ignored three warnings of over-speeding in two minutes before the train plunged off the tracks on the treacherous turn.

According to New York Daily, a court statement revealed that the driver was talking on the phone to a colleague when he received the first automatic warning in his cabin for a speed zone ahead.

The forensic tests on the train's black box data recorders showed that the last warning was given to the driver just 250 meters before the dangerous curve where the accident had occurred, the report added.

However, the train driver was going at a speed of 121 mph, when the speed limit was set at 50 mph.

The report further added that the driver applied the emergency brakes four seconds later, but the train had already begun to lose contact with the tracks.

The train crash killed 79 people on the eve of the Santiago de Compostela Festivities.