MADRID (AP) — The driver of a train that crashed in Spain in 2013, killing 80 passengers and injuring 145 others, told a court Thursday that he had braked but couldn´t avoid the accident. He said there had been no signals warning him to reduce speed before the curve where the crash occurred. 

Spain’s state news agency Efe and other media outlets said Francisco José Garzón Amo, had difficulty speaking and shed some tears as he began to give testimony. He continually apologized. 

He was speaking on the second day of the trial in the northwestern city of Santiago de Compostela. 

Prosecutors are seeking four-year prison sentences if Garzón and Andrés Cortabitarte, a former security director at state-owned rail infrastructure company ADIF, are convicted of bearing responsibility for the deaths and injuries. They both are accused of professional negligence. 

Cortibitarte was due to give testimony on Friday but the court postponed it until Tuesday. The defendant asked for a delay, saying he was still shaken from being assaulted by a protester and insulted by crowds on leaving the court Wednesday.

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