Train driver to face trial for Spain's worst accident in decades

MADRID - A train driver and a former senior official will face trial in Spain for the country's worst train accident in decades, which killed dozens of people in 2013, a court in the northwestern region of Galicia said on Tuesday.

The train derailed and slammed into a concrete wall on the outskirts of Santiago de Compostela in July 2013 after approaching a curve at more than double the speed limit on that piece of the track, killing 80 people. The prosecutor is requesting four-year prison sentences for the train driver and the head of traffic safety at the time the route started operating.