'What Joy To Set Police Speed Guns Off': Spanish Driver Whose Derailed Train Killed At Least 80 People While Traveling At 120mph In 50mph Zone Posted Boasting Facebook Photo Of Speedometer -- Daily Mail
* The passenger train derailed outside city of Santiago de Compostela
* All eight carriages of the Madrid to Ferrol train derailed
* The train was carrying 218 passengers when it smashed into the wall
* Many were travelling to the area on the eve of a Christian festival
* Foreign Office confirmed a British citizen is among the injured
* Driver posted picture of train speedometer at 125mph in March last year
* Spanish PM has visited scene and declared three days official mourning
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.
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