Don’t text and drive (trains)

2008.09.15

If you have been all wrapped up in the coverage of Hurricane Ike and the Economic NWO that is currently unfolding, you may not have heard much follow-up regarding the train collision in California. As it turns out, the engineer may have missed the stop signal because he was distracted by a text message conversation. According to a NY Times article, ”investigators plan to subpoena the cellphone records of the engineer, identified by railroad union officials as Robert Sanchez, as well as those of the two boys who were said to have been exchanging text messages Friday in the minutes before his commuter train smashed into the freight train. The young men told KCBS-TV that they had taken part in the text messages exchange with the engineer right before the crash.” So, let me get this straight. Some states have passed statutes against driving while text messaging, but there is no policy at Amtrak (or state/Federal statutes) prohibiting train engineers, who have thousands of lives in their hands, from doing the same? Sounds awesome.

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Author: Ted Swenson