Rhino
01-12-2007, 11:13 AM
Feds Focus on Dispatcher in Train Crash
Friday, January 12, 2007
BOSTON — Federal investigators looking into a deadly commuter train crash are focusing on a dispatcher and her management of rail traffic while two maintenance crews were working in the area, an official said.
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Ted Turpin said the probe was narrowing to the dispatcher's radio conversations with the work crews and the timing of her actions.
The Boston-bound Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter train was traveling 60 mph Tuesday when it struck a repair vehicle in suburban Woburn, killing two workers. Ten passengers and four other workers were injured.
Other trains had passed through while the maintenance workers were there, but those trains had been switched to parallel tracks....http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jan12/0,4670,CommuterRailCrash,00.html
Friday, January 12, 2007
BOSTON — Federal investigators looking into a deadly commuter train crash are focusing on a dispatcher and her management of rail traffic while two maintenance crews were working in the area, an official said.
National Transportation Safety Board investigator Ted Turpin said the probe was narrowing to the dispatcher's radio conversations with the work crews and the timing of her actions.
The Boston-bound Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter train was traveling 60 mph Tuesday when it struck a repair vehicle in suburban Woburn, killing two workers. Ten passengers and four other workers were injured.
Other trains had passed through while the maintenance workers were there, but those trains had been switched to parallel tracks....http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jan12/0,4670,CommuterRailCrash,00.html