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Train in Spanish Crash Was Going Way Too Fast

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The Spanish train was reportedly traveling over twice the limit when it crashed. Barbie Latza Nadeau reports.

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The Spanish passenger train that smashed into a retaining wall on a curve just shy of the Santiago de Compostela station, killing 80 and injuring 150 passengers, was going twice the speed limit when the train’s momentum lifted the back of the locomotive off the tracks before the train buckled...

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