Engineer Was Texting at Time of CA Collision
It has been confirmed that the engineer of the train that crashed near Los Angeles and killed 25 people was texting on his cell phone 22 seconds before the trains collided after he ran through a stop signal.
The NTSB also determined that the brakes on the train were not applied before the collision and that the stop signals were working at the time of the horrific accident, one of the worst in California’s history. The report further states that in two hours while the engineer was operating the train, he received a total of 21 text messages and sent more than two dozen himself. Clearly, the engineer was not paying attention driving this locomotive at the time of the collision.
Metrolink, the engineer’s employer, actually bans the use of cell phones on the job, but at this time, there is no federal or state regulation barring the use of cell phones by engineers on moving trains. More than 130 people were injured in this September 12 accident, and the Metrolink engineer was among the dead.
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