The death toll from Spain’s train derailment has risen to 79 after an injured passenger died in a hospital.

The driver of the train which crashed in north-west Spain, killing 78 people, is appearing in court this evening.

The injured driver of the Spanish train that derailed at high speed, killing 78 people and injuring dozens more, has been released from hospital but is still being held in a police station as authorities increasingly focus on his culpability.

The driver whose speeding train crashed, killing 78 people, is now being held on suspicion of negligent homicide, Spain’s interior minister says.

The Spanish justice department has said the driver of the train that derailed on Wednesday will not be appearing before a judge today as had been hoped.

Investigations into Spain’s deadliest train crash in decades have only begun, but already a key question has been answered: experts said that the driver, not a computer, was responsible for applying the brakes because a no “fail-safe” system has been installed on the dangerous stretch of bending track.

Police say they have detained the driver of the train that crashed in north-western Spain and killed 78 people.

Investigators probing the Spanish rail disaster are focusing on the key question of why the train was going so fast.

One of the drivers of a Spanish train which derailed killing at least 80 people allegedly joked on Facebook on a previous occasion about speeding past police.

The driver of a Spanish train was taken into custody in hospital last night after at least 80 people died when it derailed and caught fire in a crash which was reportedly caused by excessive speed.

A Spanish train that hurtled off the rails and smashed into a security wall as it rounded a bend was going so fast that carriages tumbled off the tracks like dominos, killing 80 people and maiming dozens more, according to eyewitness accounts and video footage obtained today.