Masinis KA yang Terbalik di Spanyol Pamer `Nyali`Ngebut di Facebook

Driver Posted Picture of Train Speedometer at 125mph on Facebook

Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi


Masinis KA yang Terbalik di Spanyol Pamer `Nyali`Ngebut di Facebook
Kecepatan kereta tercatat di speedometer yang di-posting di Facebook dan insert sang masinis Francisco Jose Garzon (Foto2: Mail Online)

MASINIS di Spanyol yang keretanya meluncur keluar dari rel dan menabrak dinding, menewaskan sedikitnya 80 orang, sebelumnya sempat pamer kebiasaan ngebut saat mengemudikan kereta api melalui laman Facebook-nya.

Francisco Jose Garzon, salah satu masinis di kereta yang terbalikh, mengakibatkan hingga 141 orang terluka termasuk satu warga Inggris, dilaporkan telah mem-posting foto kecepatan kereta melalui speedometer hingga 201 km per jam (125mph) tahun lalu.

Menurut laporan ia juga membual tentang kemampuannya uji nyali sebagai masinis. Akun Facebook-nya mendadak hilang setelah foto itu muncul di TV Spanyol dan situs surat kabar.

Bersamaan dengan foto, yang diterbitkan pada Maret tahun lalu, ia menulis: "Paling mengasyikkan kecepatannya melebihi polisi tanpa khawatir ditangkap saat melewati mereka ... hahaha.."

Pernyataan itu muncul setelah pengadilan Spanyol mengatakan salah satu masinis kereta sedang ditahan di rumah sakit.

Mahkamah Agung wilayah Galicia, tidak menjelaskan hasil pemeriksaan terhadap masinis tapi hanya bilang: "Hakim telah memerintahkan polisi untuk memeriksa masinis, saat ini sedang menjalani proses verbal, di rumah sakit di mana dia ditahan."

Sebuah video mengerikan muncul yang menggambarkan saat-saat kereta api terbalik.

Delapan gerbong kereta yang berangkat dari Madrid menuju Ferrol kereta tergelincir di dekat kota Santiago de Compostela, Kamis malam (25/7).

Rekaman video dramatis dari kamera keamanan menunjukkan kereta yang ngebut menabrak dinding beton ketika berada di tikungan, sebelum terbalik dan meluncur keluar dari rel kereta api sementara penumpang menjerit ketakutan.

Salah satu masinis yang terjebak di kabin dan melapor ke stasiun kereta melalui radio bahwa kereta memasuki tikungan dengan kecepatan 190 kilometer per jam (120 mph), seperti  dilaporkan surat kabar El Pais yang dikutip Mail Online.

Batas kecepatan maksimal saat berada di tikungan adalah adalah 80km per jam (50mph).

"Kami hanya manusia! Kita hanya manusia! ' katanya kepada stasiun, kata surat kabar itu, mengutip sumber yang dekat dengan pihak penyelidik. "Saya berharap tidak ada yang mati, karena menurut perkiraan saya kereta ini akan terbalik."

Polisi menempatkan masinis yang tidak disebutkan namanya dalam penyelidikan intensif - aparat di pemerintah lokal Galicia menyatakan salah satu masinis berada di rumah sakit.

Laporan surat kabar mengutip para saksi mengatakan masinis  Francisco Jose Garzon, yang membantu menyelamatkan korban, berteriak: "Kereta tergelincir! Apa yang harus saya lakukan? ' katanya melalui telepon.

Kecelakaan itu merupakan kecelakaan kereta api terburuk dalam 30 tahun terakhir di Spanyol dan rekaman televisi menunjukkan satu gerbong mengarah ke atas dan bagian gerbong lainnya ringsek.

Gerbong kereta lainnya terbelah dua tampak teronggok di antara rel kereta api.

Renfe, perusahaan kereta api milik negara merilis laporan bahwa kereta naas tersebut mengangkut 218 penumpang namun tidak menjelaskan petugas di kereta.

A DRIVER of the Spanish train which hurtled off the tracks and smashed into a wall, killing at least 80 people, previously boasted of speeding on his Facebook page.

Francisco Jose Garzon, one of the drivers on the train which crashed, leaving up to 141 people injured including one Briton, is reported to have posted a picture on the site of a train speedometer at 125mph last year.

According to reports he also boasted about how fast he was going. The webpage has disappeared after images appeared on Spanish TV and newspaper websites.

Alongside the photo, which was published in March last year, he wrote: 'What joy it would be to get level with the police and then go past them making their speed guns go off. Ha ha!.'

It came after a Spanish court said one of the drivers of the train was being held in custody in hospita

The Supreme Court of the Galicia region, which did not say which driver was being questioned, said: 'The judge has ordered the police to take a statement from the driver, currently under formal investigation, in the hospital where he is being held in custody.'

A terrifying video meanwhile has emerged which captured the moment the train crashed.

All eight carriages of the Madrid to Ferrol train derailed near the city of Santiago de Compostela last night.

Dramatic video footage from a security camera shows the train careering into a concrete wall as it came off the rails on the bend, before flipping onto its side and hurtling down the railway line with its terrified passengers on board.

One of the drivers was trapped in his cabin and told the railway station by radio that the train entered the bend at 190 kilometres per hour (120 mph), reported newspaper El Pais.

The speed limit on that section of track is 80km/h (50mph).

'We're only human! We're only human!' he told the station, the newspaper said, citing sources close to the investigation. 'I hope there are no dead, because this will fall on my conscience.'

Police have put an unnamed train driver under formal investigation - the Galicia government said one driver was in hospital.

Newspaper reports cited witnesses as saying driver Francisco Jose Garzon,who helped rescue victims, had shouted: 'I've derailed! What do I do?' into a phone.

The accident is the worst train accident in 30 years and television footage showed one wagon pointing upwards into the air with one of its ends twisted and disfigured.

Another carriage that had been severed in two could be seen lying on a road near the track.

State-owned train operator Renfe said in a statement that 218 passengers and an unspecified number of staff were on board at the time of the accident.