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Metrolink Train Crash Engineer Text Message 22 Seconds Before Crash
A Metrolink engineer sent a text message from his cellphone seconds before he slammed into an oncoming freight train in an accident that killed 25 people and injured 135 others last month, federal authorities said today. Engineer Robert M. Sanchez sent the message at 4:22 p.m., 22 seconds before he hit the Union Pacific freight [...]
Continue reading...Was Fatigue a Factor in the Metrolink Train Crash?
25. September 2008
Veolia Transportation Inc. is the company that hired Robert Sanchez, the Metrolink engineer on duty at the time of the Metrolink crash September 12th. Sanchez is being blamed for the accident because he did not apply the train brakes even after passing three warning signals. Two workers have filed a class-action lawsuit against Veolia Transportation claiming [...]
Continue reading...Candlelight Vigil for LA Train Accident Victims
22. September 2008
It was the worst train crash in fifteen years. 25 people died in theMetrolink 111 crash on September 12th. Most of them were sitting in the first car of the train. The crash occurred when the Metrolink engineer failed to brake which would have allowed the freight train who had the right of way, to pass [...]
Continue reading...Metrolink Train Crash Inured Victims Stories
22. September 2008
Ten days have passed since the horrific Metrolink train crash claimed the lives of 25 people and injured 135 others, like Rachael Moyfa, a foreign-exchange student who remains hospitalized in critical but stable condition. The massive impact fractured Moyfa’s skull and damaged her brain, and she remains unconscious and heavily medicated at Los Angeles County-USC [...]
Continue reading...Metrolink Train Accident Cell Phone Investigation
22. September 2008
After the Metrolink train crash that killed 25 people, officials are reviewing and evaluating current railway safety laws. One regulation Michael Peevey, President of the California Public Utilities Commission, intends to bring into light is to the prohibition of train staff using their mobile phones when on dusty. But this ban is already there and yet regularly [...]
Continue reading...Railway Laws Reviewed after Metrolink Train Crash
19. September 2008
After the Metrolink train crash that killed 25 people, officials are reviewing and evaluating current railway safety laws. One regulation Michael Peevey, President of the California Public Utilities Commission, intends to bring into light is to the prohibition of train staff using their mobile phones when on dusty. But this ban is already there and yet [...]
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1. October 2008
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