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Added on the 14/05/2015 05:15:53 - Copyright : Reuters - Next Media
An engineer used an emergency brake moments before Amtrak Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia on Tuesday night at more than 100 miles per hour, according to National Transportation Safety Bureau official Robert Sumwalt, as reported by NBC.
According to a National Transportation Safety Board report, the engineer driving a speeding Amtrak passenger train that killed eight people in Philadelphia in 2015 was distracted by radio traffic before the derailment. Jillian Kitchener reports.
Emergency service workers continued to inspect the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) train that derailed at Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal on Wednesday morning, injuring 103. The train was traveling at around 15 miles per hour and was carrying 650 people on board when it slammed through a metal bumper designed to keep it on the tracks. Glass from the windows shattered and passengers were thrown around. Emergency services blocked roads around the station before quickly evacuating the passengers and rushing the injured to hospital. None of the injuries were deemed life threatening. The underlying cause of the incident remains unconfirmed, however, authorities suspect human error as the leading reason behind the crash. Investigators were called in after all passengers were evacuated and began to inspect the derailed train, which is the second major accident in the metropolitan to occur in the past 5 months. A major derailment occurred in September 2016 when a New Jersey commuter train derailed at the Hoboken station, injuring 114 and killing one. Authorities interviewed the engineer, conductor, and brakeman and tested all the staff for alcohol and drugs. The LIRR is the United States largest commuter rail system, running 24 hours a day, every day of the year and carrying around 330,000 passengers daily.
A Chester, Pennsylvania woman who lives near where an Amtrak train derailed, killing at least two people, describes the first moments after the crash. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Investigators announced Wednesday the engineer driving the Amtrak train that derailed on May 12 in Philadelphia was likely not using his phone in the moments before the crash.
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