Train Crash Statements Might Conflict
Witnesses to a deadly train crash have given possibly conflicting statements about whether a steel-laden truck was on the tracks before warning signals and crossing gates activated, a spokesman for a federal safety panel said Sunday.
“We have not been able to completely reconcile the statements that are possibly conflicting,” National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Jamie Finch said, referring to three witnesses’ accounts.
He would not comment on the possible conflicts but said transcripts of the interviews would be analyzed and compared with physical evidence from the scene.
Finch said the last investigating team will leave Bourbonnais in a couple of days.
Eleven people were killed and more than 100 injured when the Amtrak train crashed into the truck on March 15. Ten passengers remained hospitalized Sunday, one in critical condition, hospital officials said.
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