As more details roll in regarding the fatal train wreck in Chatsworth on Friday, so does the death count. Killing 25 people, Friday night’s collision was the “deadliest in 15 years.” Chatting with a teen just moments before the crash was the engineer of the Metrolink train.Speaking up about the incident, the teen, Nick Williams, told CBS2 in Los Angeles that he exchanged three text messages with engineer Robert Sanchez (his mentor) Friday afternoon. According to the ocregister.com, Williams got his last text at 4:22 p.m., one minute before the train wreck.
Stating that he’d be meeting up with another passenger train later that day, Sanchez said, “I just replied back, ‘good deal,’ and I just said, ‘That’s cool,’ and I never got a response back,” said Williams.
After a preliminary investigation, it was found that “a Metrolink engineer failed to stop at a red signal and that was the probable cause” of the crash.
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October 13th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
The cause was two trains on the same track going in opposite directions.
November 13th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
This happened right by my house…. this was a tragedy.
The crazy thing is my cousin was going to take a train to come visit me that day. I don’t know if it was the same train that wound up crashing or not, but its still crazy to think about that effecting me first hand.
Prayers for All those family and friends effected….
November 13th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Micky Rourke you are a genuine Sherlock holmes!!
And yah ditto, Prayers go out to all of those were affected by this tragedy.