Full coverage of September 2008 Metrolink crash and aftermath
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Judy Reel chooses carefully where she sits as she returns to riding the rails.
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Racheal Mofya, who was severely injured in the 2008 train crash, faces many months of mental and physical rehabilitation. She may never fully recover.
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Denise Tyrrell will work for the state Public Utilities Commission. She quit her Metrolink job after being criticized for saying early on that the commuter train had run a red light.
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Disclosures may help increase compensation awards, experts say. Metrolink and Connex, the company that employed the engineer, are suing each other over which bears liability.
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The employees of contractor Connex were supervisors of the engineer involved in the deadly Chatsworth crash.
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Officials criticize a ‘safety system that existed only on paper,’ and say cellphone use and other rule violations observed in the Chatsworth Metrolink crash appear to be only the tip of the iceberg.
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Federal hearing on deadly Chatsworth crash reveals engineer had previously been reprimanded for on-duty cellphone use, and that he sent teen a text message saying ‘ur gonna run the locomotive.’
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As a federal hearing into the Chatsworth disaster is set to begin, recent red-light signal violations have raised concerns.
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Witnesses in the inquiry about the Chatsworth collision will testify in Washington next month about the system’s enforcement of safety procedures.
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The attorney for the only surviving crew member in the deadly Chatsworth crash says his client told NTSB investigators that he had complained to a supervisor about it.
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A closed-door session by board members to discuss David Solow’s status does not end in termination. The chief has been criticized since the deadly train collision in Chatsworth.
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Agency needs to do more to monitor employees and keep board members informed, according to experts studying last year’s fatal crash.
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An employee of Metrolink contractor Connex Railroad had allegedly complained about Robert M. Sanchez’s cellphone use on the job before the deadly Sept. 12 crash in Chatsworth.
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A yellow light before the Chatsworth train station warns of a red light after the station. Experts say that sequence leaves too much time to forget and too many distractions for crew members.
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The onboard surveillance is intended to enforce safety rules. But the proposal draws criticism from employees and skepticism from California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
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The mother of Michael Hammersley alleges negligence. Four who were injured also file suits.
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Chatsworth crash review stresses the need for a greater emphasis on safety.
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The commuter line’s founders gambled that the line could operate without an automatic braking system, interviews with safety experts and documents show.
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David R. Solow has been widely criticized since the wreck that killed 25 and injured 135.
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The conductor and others contradict the preliminary findings of the National Transportation Safety Board, which has said the commuter train ran a red light just before colliding with a freight train.
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Engineer Robert M. Sanchez’s cause of death is listed as massive trauma injuries from the accident, which killed 25 people
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Investigators find the station’s red signal was not as clear as the yellow and green ones, and continue probing whether the engineer and conductor followed communication rules.
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After Chatsworth and Rialto crashes, new rule requires trains to cut speed when alerted that light may be red. Sen. Dianne Feinstein calls for faster approvals for new collision avoidance technology.
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‘But we don’t know why,’ an investigator says. The collision injured five people Thursday.
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Some transit agencies have one or more public positions on their governing boards. In Metrolink’s case, not one board member rides the rails regularly.
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The commuter rail line takes legal action against the company that provides the crews that work on its trains in the wake of the deadly Chatsworth crash.
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The group was formed in response to the Chatsworth crash that killed 25 people. A report on improving operations is due in 60 days.
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Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific, which share tracks with Metrolink, say the system’s complexity may prevent a complete rollout by that date, however.
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Three observers who were at the Chatsworth station -- a security guard and two train enthusiasts -- insist that the engineer had a green light.
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The Metrolink crash victim was remembered as ‘a remarkable person’ who touched many lives.
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The Rev. Donald Ashman says he knows he was on the train and survived so he could pray for the dead. ‘I was where God intended me to be,’ he says.
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Agency chief called in 2007 for ‘flexibility’ to choose train controls. Feinstein and Boxer introduce a bill to require railroads to install updated safety systems.
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Only N.J.’s far-busier commuter rail has had more deaths since ’99.
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Federal transportation officials say it’s too early to determine what caused the crash that has killed at least 25 people and left 135 more injured, 40 of them critically.
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Veteran firefighters had to face the knowledge that they could not save everyone.
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The tight-knit Ventura County city was the next-to-last stop for Metrolink 111. A moment of silence for the dead and injured was observed Saturday at the annual Simi Valley Days festival.
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Commuter train with 225 aboard slams into freight train on winding route in Chatsworth. More than 135 are injured.
