Text Messaging Investigated in Train Crash
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A red signal was missed and a disaster ensued. There is a search for answers in the recent train crash in Los Angeles and there are suspicions of text messaging being a factor:
“Federal investigators plan to subpoena the cell phone records of the engineer who is said to have been exchanging text messages in the minutes before his commuter train ran through a red signal and smashed into a freight train Friday, killing 25 people.”
link: Why didn’t it stop on red?
Other tragedies have been linked to text messaging. Any alleged text messages would have a time stamp which could be correlated to the train location. With a hundred and thirty five people injured, this is the worse American train disaster in fifteen years.
Catherine Forsythe
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Dave Zielesch
September 15th, 2008
at 2:33pm
I would be bold enough to suggest that if cell phone useage is limited in the state of California to bluetooth and hands free devices for the mere reason of operating a motor vehicle, that the use of a handheld device such as b-berry, etc for the purposes of two handed texting while piloting a train could be best described as completely reckless and just because the path of the vehicle is limited to tracks does NOT make it “safer.” IF the operation of this train while otherwise distracted is true….. I would NOT want to be those responsible for this individual’s actions. It also sounds like there are other factors involved with this tragedy besides “texting” so let’s not all automatically place ALL the primary collision factor on the communications device.