{"id":527860,"date":"2022-10-07T11:42:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T06:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=527860"},"modified":"2022-10-07T13:34:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T08:04:31","slug":"trial-begins-over-2013-train-crash-that-killed-80-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/trial-begins-over-2013-train-crash-that-killed-80-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial begins over 2013 train crash that killed 80 in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A trial opened on Wednesday over a 2013 train accident in Spain that killed 80 passengers and injured 145. <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors are seeking four-year prison sentences for the train driver and for a former security director at rail infrastructure company ADIF. <\/p>\n<p>On July 24, 2013, a long-distance train derailed and crashed against a concrete wall near the northwestern city of Santiago de Compostela. <\/p>\n<p>The investigation showed the train was travelling at 179 kph (111mph) on a stretch with an 80 kph (50mph) speed limit. It was also revealed that the driver was answering a phone call from the conductor moments before the accident. A victims association said that it has taken too long to hold the trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trial opened on Wednesday over a 2013 train accident in Spain that killed 80 passengers and injured 145. Prosecutors are seeking four-year prison sentences for the train driver and for a former security director at rail infrastructure company ADIF. On July 24, 2013, a long-distance train derailed and crashed against a concrete wall near the northwestern city of Santiago de Compostela. The investigation showed the train was travelling at 179 kph (111mph) on a stretch with an 80 kph (50mph) speed limit. It was also revealed that the driver was answering a phone call from the conductor moments before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,263,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-railways-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}