Tuesday, 17 May 2016

Philadelphia Amtrak crash: distracted engineer largely to blame, officials say

Investigators point to Brandon Bostian’s concern over a nearby train being hit by a rock but say lack of positive train control technology also a factor

The Amtrak engineer whose speeding train ran off the rails in Philadelphia last year was apparently distracted by word that a train nearby had been hit by a rock, federal investigators concluded on Tuesday, pinning most of the blame on him for the wreck that killed eight people.

“He went, in a matter of seconds, from distraction to disaster,” National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said.

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