Spain l the driver could be sentenced to 312 years in prison

The driver of the three brutally derailed in Santiago de Compostela, northern Spain, is exposed to a sentence ranging from 12 to 312 years in prison, according to initial estimates of legal experts. The accident in which 78 people died and 178 were injured, many of consideration, could have been caused by "reckless" in leading the convoy, he said the police today. The Article 142 of the Spanish Penal Code provides that the negligence charged with fatal consequences apply a variable worth one to four years in prison for each of the victims. therefore the sum of 312 years in prison , although some extenuating punishment could stop the driver, if found guilty, in 12 years. Moreover, the injured and the relatives of those killed would receive compensation of up to 150 million euros, say the experts quoted by the local press. The machinist is  officially arrested and  expected to declare,  while the government urged caution about the causes of the event. The driver remains in hospital in Santiago and has been  charged with "negligence" resulting in death,  said the head of the police than the Galicia region, Jaime Iglesias. Specifically, Iglesias said the driver is "charged with a crime related to the authorship of the accident" and that  the police statement can occur "at any moment" of the day. The images that are sweeping through the world and make an impression. The wrecked convoy  traveling at 190 kilometers per hour  when the limit on the curve is 80.