Review of train speed limits after deadly crash

Spain will review speed limits and security systems throughout its rail network to avoid a repeat of a train crash that killed 79 people last month, a government minister said yesterday.

The government also proposed improving rail signs and introducing hands-free phone communication between drivers and the rail control centre, public works minister Ana Pastor told a parliamentary transport commission

A court investigating the disaster has said its preliminary findings show the train was going at least 195km/h on a stretch where the speed limit was 80km/h when it crashed on Jul 24 on a tight curve outside the northwestern pilgrim city of Santiago de Compostela.