Santiago accident: Ana Pastor appears on August 9; Renfe and Adif, the 8
The Minister of Development, Ana Pastor, will appear at her own request in Congress next Friday, August 9, to report on the Alvia Madrid-Ferrol train accident recorded last Wednesday, July 24 in Santiago de Compostela.
Pastor will go to the Lower House one day after the presidents of Renfe and Adif, Julio Gómez-Pomar and Gonzalo Ferre, who will appear on Thursday, August 8.
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The driver began to brake seven seconds before derailment and left the road at 179 km / h
Francisco José Garzón Amo, an Alvia machinist who suffered a serious accident, with 79 dead and more than 150 injured, began to stop seven seconds before derailment, four seconds after concluding the telephone call made by the inspector who was in the convoy.
At the time of leaving the track, the train was running at 179 kilometers per hour, an area where the maximum speed allowed is 80. In addition, he spoke at 199 km / h with the inspector traveling on the train up to 11 seconds before the accident and He listened while a warning indicating the proximity of the section with a limit of 80.
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Beiras: “Disrespect” to the victims who “go to subterfuges to avoid their responsibility”
The spokesman for the Galician Alternative of Esquerda (AGE), Xosé Manuel Beiras, has accused “disrespecting” the victims of the Santiago train accident who “goes to subterfuges to avoid responsibility for the causes of the catastrophe” and has taken advantage of the presence of the president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to reply that AGE respects those affected.
At the beginning of his speech at the extraordinary plenary session that has approved the expenditure ceiling for 2014, Beiras, which has referred to Feijóo as “citizen president Núñez”, he has defended that “the victims are not disrespectful”, who denounces the protest acts planned for July 15, who “remains silent until the seventh day of mourning” and “refrains from making political judgments or of intention “or of” rushing to turn the driver into a scapegoat “.
“They disrespect who accuses us, elected representatives of the citizens, of disrespecting us because we are loyal to our represented, even if you machine-shoot us, for the moment, verbally, because we do not kneel at your feet to lick them shoes and from there, “he said and accused the PP of trying to” apply the law of silence. “
Beiras: “Disrespect” to the victims who “go to subterfuges to avoid their responsibility”
The spokesman for the Galician Alternative of Esquerda (AGE), Xosé Manuel Beiras, has accused “disrespecting” the victims of the Santiago train accident who “goes to subterfuges to avoid responsibility for the causes of the catastrophe” and has taken advantage of the presence of the president of the Xunta, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, to reply that AGE respects those affected.
At the beginning of his speech at the extraordinary plenary session that has approved the expenditure ceiling for 2014, Beiras, which has referred to Feijóo as “citizen president Núñez”, he has defended that “the victims are not disrespectful”, who denounces the protest acts planned for July 15, who “remains silent until the seventh day of mourning” and “refrains from making political judgments or of intention “or of” rushing to turn the driver into a scapegoat “.
“They disrespect who accuses us, elected representatives of the citizens, of disrespecting us because we are loyal to our represented, even if you machine-shoot us, for the moment, verbally, because we do not kneel at your feet to lick them shoes and from there, “he said and accused the PP of trying to” apply the law of silence. “