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Probe into Deadly Amtrak Derailment Sharpens on Engineer and Track Speed
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Probe into Deadly Amtrak Derailment Sharpens on Engineer and Track Speed
By Dana Hedgpeth, Ashley Halsey III and Julie Zauzmer
May 14 at 7:04 AM
The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/
probe-into-deadly-amtrak-derailment-sharpens-on-engineer-and-track-speed/
2015/05/14/8e18fcdc-fa1c-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html
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Two days after seven people were killed in an Amtrak derailment in
Philadelphia, experts Thursday sharpened their probe into why the train
was traveling more than twice the speed limit on a stretch of curving
track.
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Although the engineer applied the emergency brakes, it was not soon enough
and the Washington-to-New York train careened off the rails into a jumble
of wrenched metal, blown-out windows and bloodied survivors struggling
through darkness trying to light their way with cell phones.
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Even as the debris was gathered, questions mounted led by whether safety
shortcomings contributed to the accident along the nations busiest rail
corridor.
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Investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board said there is
technology available, known as Positive Train Control, that prohibits
trains from exceeding speed limits. The system is in place in much of the
Northeast Corridor, but Amtrak had not installed it on the section of
track where the derailment happened.
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Congress has mandated that the system be installed throughout the U.S.
rail system by the end of this year.
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Had such a system been installed on this section of track, this accident
would not have occurred, said NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt.
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Overnight, the fifth of seven passengers who were killed was identified:
42-year-old Derrick Griffith who was dean of student affairs at Medgar
Evans College.
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Amtrak service remained closed between New York and Philadelphia. Amtrak
trains also will make fewer trips than normal between Washington and
Philadelphia.
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Among the other victims, according to family members: Rachel Jacobs, 39,
of Philadelphia; a Naval Academy midshipman Justin Zemzer, 20, who was on
leave and headed to his home in Rockaway Beach, N.Y., and Jim Gaines, 48,
of Plainsboro, N.J., who worked for the Associated Press.
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