REPORT: Driver Of Train In Fatal Spain Derailment Previously Bragged About Speeding On Facebook

In the latest example of Facebook posts coming back to haunt their authors, Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, driver of the ill-fated train that derailed and crashed in Spain Thursday, killing 78 people, posted a photo to his since-deleted Facebook account last year showing the speedometer of the train he was driving at the time and boasting about speeding, Fox News Latino reported, via Spanish newspaper El Pais.

In the latest example of Facebook posts coming back to haunt their authors, Francisco Jose Garzon Amo, driver of the ill-fated train that derailed and crashed in Spain Thursday, killing 78 people, posted a photo to his since-deleted Facebook account last year showing the speedometer of the train he was driving at the time and boasting about speeding, Fox News Latino reported, via Spanish newspaper El Pais.

According to El Pais, as reported by Fox News Latino, Garzon Amo posted a photo of a train speedometer that read 124 miles per hour to his Facebook account March 8, 2012, with the caption:

I’m at the limit.

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