Metrolink: Seeking clues from cell phone records
Federal authorities said Sunday they will seek the cell-phone records of two teens and the Metrolink engineer involved in Friday's deadly crash as they investigate whether text messages played a role in the fiery collision that killed 25 passengers. Sue Doyle in the Daily News.
Kitty Higgins, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, also told reporters late Sunday that engineer Robert Sanchez missed the last two "call-outs" to the conductor riding in the rear of Metrolink Train 111 before it slammed into an oncoming freight train.
While Metrolink quickly took responsibility for the crash, blaming it on "operator error," attention has focused on two 14-year-old boys who claimed they'd been exchanging text messages with Sanchez just
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The cell phone is a red herring. The simple truth is: the MetroLink train shouldn't have been at the Chatsworth station, it should have been on a siding many miles before that. Chatsworth also has a siding, but the train shouldn't have gotten that far. The critical mistake happened miles before Chatsworth. MetroLink's rush to judgment is very suspicious to me.