The train carrying tourists to Portugal veered off the tracks and smashed into a pillar on Friday, killing its Portuguese driver as well as a US passenger and two Spaniards.The train’s so-called black box recorder was recovered and handed over to judicial authorities in the small town of O Porrino where the tragedy occurred. “We are reviewing the possible causes of the accident and the most probable is excessive speed,” O Porrino mayor Eva García told reporters. She cautioned however that definitive conclusions would only be made public when an investigation was finished, at a date to be determined. The train, which was travelling to Porto in Portugal from Spain’s Vigo, appeared to have hit the wall of a bridge as it was going underneath, prompting it to crash just before entering a station. Authorities in the Galicia region where the accident took place said that the train conductor was one of the two Spaniards who died in the Friday morning accident, which also saw some 47 people injured.
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