Texting to Blame for California Train Crash »
Posted By blogzilla 1 year, 3 months ago in Science & TechnologyAccording to reports by Reuters, the engineer of the fatal train crash that killed 25 people and injured 135 was text messaging from his cell phone. It was the worst train accident since 1993. The Metrolink commuter train plowed into a Union Pacific freight locomotive on September 12 in Chatsworth, California.
A National Transportation Safety Board probe has focused on whether the engineer, identified as Robert Martin Sanchez, 46, failed to heed trackside signals. Sanchez was killed in the crash.
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