09-16-2008, 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Fletch XXX
"A train driver blamed for missing a red signal shortly before two trains collided in Los Angeles last week killing 25 people may have been distracted by text messages right before the crash, officials have said."
The sentence says "may have been" - nowhere does it state anything other than a POSSIBILITY. You claim he was actually using his phone, I have YET to read that from anyone but you.
I am not here to debate possibilities, but the fact is, people have already begun placing the blame on a dead guy instead of focusing on how to make sure this doesnt happen again.
The blame game always tops the ones who know what really caused this. Lack of technology due to the most common phrase used before devastation occurs, "costs too much."
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The National Transportation Safety Board rightly says it is continuing to investigate, before it confirms or denies whether the engineer who failed to see one or more warning lights to stop the commuter train in his charge was exchanging text messages at the time he blew through.
But a 15-year-old has claimed to be conducting a series of exchanges with the engineer, up until a minute before the wreck.
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