Spain Train Crash Black Box Shows Driver Panicking: “I Want to Die,” He Says

Investigators have examined the contents of the train's black box in the horrific Santiago de Compostela crash.

As we mentioned before, the accident killed 80 people, one of whom was a US citizen. A lot of the travelers were pilgrims headed for the St. James festival.

The black box revealed the panic experienced by the driver just before the dramatic crash. He loses control of the train and wishes his own death upon realizing the tragedy that is about to hit.

“What do I do? What am I supposed to do? [...] I want to die,” he says moments before impact.

Reports show that he had previously uploaded a photo of a speedometer on his Facebook account, boasting about wishing to drive fast past police and not being caught.

“What joy it would be to get level with the police and then go past them making their speed guns go off. Ha ha!” he wrote.

According to the Daily Mail, the post has been taken off the site, but a photo of it is attached to this news piece.

“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 spokesperson for the Supreme Court of the Galicia region said after the crash.

Driver Francisco Jose Garzon has since been arrested. Upon exiting the train wreck, he was yet unaware of the gravity of the situation.

“We're only human! We're only human! [...] I hope there are no dead, because this will fall on my conscience,” he told a local news station.

After smashing into a wall in a curve, while doing 190 kmh (118 mph), he called his superior to alert them of the imminent danger.

“I've derailed! What do I do?” he asked.

Passengers paint a horrific photo after all 13 carriages of the train flew off the tracks, stacking one on top of the other and trapping passengers inside.

“When the train reached that bend it began to flip over, many times, with some carriages ending up on top of others, leaving many people trapped below. [...] We had to get under the carriages to get out,” Ricardo Montero recalls.