[Dixonary] Train wreck

[Toni Savage]

My number is listed too (Brooklyn, ny)

Wayne, is it true that the train driver was TEXTING to a friend when he missed the stoplight???

-- Toni Savage


--- On Sun, 9/14/08, Wayne Scott, MD <waynescottmd (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote:

> From: Wayne Scott, MD <waynescottmd (AT) earthlink (DOT) net>
> Subject: [Dixonary] Re: phone numbers
> To: Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
> Date: Sunday, September 14, 2008, 2:20 AM


> By the way, I'm 60 miles from the train wreck
> yesterday.
>
> Wayne

[Wayne Scott, MD]

I haven't heard that. The last version on our local TV news was that he had fallen asleep.
Wayne

[Judy G. Russell]

I haven't heard that. The last version on our local TV news was that he had fallen asleep.

The last I heard last night, driving home from Pennsylvania, was that the metro folks admitted that the engineer -- a contract worker -- was responsible and had failed to stop for a track signal. The news report mentioned that a text message had been sent a minute before the accident, but today's LA Times has this to say: "KCBS-AM (740) reported Saturday that several teenage train aficionados said they had received a text message from the engineer shortly before the crash. The NTSB said it was treating the report with caution, noting that similar accounts had circulated after a crash in Boston but were found to be inaccurate."

[Wayne Scott, MD]

That is what our local news is saying. One report is that he fell asleep.
Wayne