page_title: Santiago de Compostela derailment
hierarchical_section_title: Santiago de Compostela derailment
caption_attribution_description: English: Tragedy in Santiago de Compostela Photos I made on-site of the train crash on July 24 near Santiago de Compostela. At the time of writing are counted 65 dead. It is the worst rail accident in Spain in the last 40 years. Español: Fotos que hice in situ del accidente ferroviario ocurrido este 24 de julio cerca de Santiago de Compostela. En el momento de escribir estas líneas ya se cuentan 65 muertos. Es el peor accidente ferroviario de España en los últimos 40 años.
context_page_description: The Santiago de Compostela derailment occurred on 24 July 2013, when an Alvia high-speed train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol, in the north-west of Spain, derailed at high speed on a bend about 4 kilometres outside of the railway station at Santiago de Compostela. Out of 222 people on board, around 140 were injured and 79 died.
  The train's data recorder showed that it was travelling at about twice the posted speed limit of 80 kilometres per hour when it entered a bend in the rail. The crash was recorded on a track-side camera which shows all thirteen train cars derailing and four overturning. On 28 July 2013, the train's driver Francisco José Garzón Amo was charged with 79 counts of homicide by professional recklessness and an undetermined number of counts of causing injury by professional recklessness.
  The crash was Spain's worst rail accident in 40 years, since a crash near El Cuervo, Seville, in 1972. The Torre del Bierzo crash in 1944 remains the deadliest.
context_section_description: The Santiago de Compostela derailment occurred on 24 July 2013, when an Alvia high-speed train travelling from Madrid to Ferrol, in the north-west of Spain, derailed at high speed on a bend about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) outside of the railway station at Santiago de Compostela. Out of 222 people (218 passengers and 4 crew) on board, around 140 were injured and 79 died.
  The train's data recorder showed that it was travelling at about twice the posted speed limit of 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph) when it entered a bend in the rail. The crash was recorded on a track-side camera which shows all thirteen train cars derailing and four overturning. On 28 July 2013, the train's driver Francisco José Garzón Amo was charged with 79 counts of homicide by professional recklessness and an undetermined number of counts of causing injury by professional recklessness.
  The crash was Spain's worst rail accident in 40 years, since a crash near El Cuervo, Seville, in 1972. The Torre del Bierzo crash in 1944 remains the deadliest.
caption: Rescue efforts on 24 July 2013
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