Authorities blast NY railroad after crash
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Federal authorities blasted a New York railroad yesterday, following the derailment of a speeding commuter train that killed four people and injured more than 60.
Joseph Szabo, the head of the Federal Railroad Administration, said that his administration and the US Transportation Department “have serious concerns” following Sunday’s train accident and three others that occurred in New York and Connecticut between May and July.
Szabo noted that a federal team has been working closely with Metro-North Railroad and New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority. But he said “immediate corrective action is imperative.”
The MTA said the safety of its customers “has always been, and will always continue to be” its top priority. It said a panel is conducting a comprehensive probe of the “safety culture” throughout the MTA.
The engineer whose train ran off the rails on Sunday in the borough of the Bronx experienced a hypnosis-like “daze” and nodded at the controls just before the wreck, according to his lawyer and a union leader.
Attorney Jeffrey Chartier accompanied engineer William Rockefeller to his interview with National Transportation Safety Board investigators and described the account Rockefeller gave on Tuesday.
Chartier said the engineer experienced a nod or “a daze,” almost like road fatigue or the phenomenon sometimes called highway hypnosis. He couldn’t say how long it lasted.
What Rockefeller remembers is “operating the train, coming to a section where the track was still clear — then, all of a sudden, feeling something was wrong and hitting the brakes,” Chartier said.
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