Nation IN BRIEF : NEW JERSEY : Train Crash Engineer Had Been Disciplined

The engineer of the train that ran a stop signal before a fatal commuter crash had been suspended repeatedly for failing to stop and even derailing a train, investigators said. John DeCurtis, who was one of three people killed in Friday’s crash, had been suspended a total of 105 days since 1983 for the infractions, said Jim Hall, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. DeCurtis derailed once, ran stop signals twice and missed a station once. He was last suspended for running a stop signal in December 1989. The engineer of the other train, Al DeBonis, had a clean disciplinary record, Hall said. DeBonis, 47, also died in the crash, as did a passenger. The crash injured 162 people.