The driver of a train that derailed in northwestern Spain on Wednesday — killing 78 people and injuring more than 100 others — knew immediately that he screwed up and asked what to do, El Mundo reports.
"I’ve derailed," Francisco Jose Garzon frantically told the Alvia Trains control room, according to transcripts of conversations in the aftermath. "What do I do? What am I supposed to do?"
He then reportedly told rescuers: "I f----d up. I want to die."
The 52-year-old is under police guard at the hospital.
The Metro reports that Garzon previously boasted on his Facebook page about reaching speeds of more than 125 mph (200 km/h) in the past.
He allegedly posted an image of a speedometer with the caption: "What joy it would be to get level with the police and then go past them making their speed guns go off. Ha ha!"
On Thursday El Mundo reported that the train, traveling from Madrid to Ferrol, may have approached speeds of up to 118 mph (190 km/h) — the limit is 50 mph (80 km/h) at the curve approaching the station at Santiago.
El Mundo notes that the stretch of railway did not have the ERTMS system that prevents a train from exceeding the maximum speed set.
Video of the derailment shows the middle of the train coming off the tracks as it flew around the bend.
One of the dead has been identified as American Ana Maria Cordoba, from northern Virginia.
Police have not begun listening to the train's two black boxes, contrary to reports.
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