02 October 2008

It don't matter now

Rico says he can't tell whether Robert Sanchez, the train engineer who was texting some kids when his train clobbered an on-coming freight in California, was child-like, childish, or a child molester. Don't matter now; he died a richly deserved death when the unnoticed train shoved his cell phone, and most of him, into the next car on the train:
A Metrolink engineer sent a text message from his cellphone 22 seconds before he collided with an oncoming freight train in an accident that killed 25 people last month, according to preliminary information released Wednesday by federal authorities.
Engineer Robert M. Sanchez sent the message at 4:22 p.m., just before he slammed into the Union Pacific train Sept. 12 in Chatsworth, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a statement. He also received a message about a minute earlier, the agency said.
In all, Sanchez received or sent 57 text messages while on duty the day of the catastrophic collision.
The findings fill in key gaps regarding the moments before the crash and indicate that Sanchez was conscious and feeling well enough to text, even though the practice is strictly prohibited by Metrolink policy.
Officials didn't say whom Sanchez was messaging. A Metrolink official said an engineer on another commuter rail train was suspended for sending text messages about the time of the crash.
The NTSB subpoenaed Sanchez's phone records after CBS radio and TV affiliates in Los Angeles reported that he had been exchanging text messages with teenage rail fans seconds before the crash. Sanchez sent 24 texts and received 21 while operating the train on his morning shift and sent five and got seven messages in the approximately 80 minutes he was responsible for train No. 111 from 3:03 p.m. until the crash at 4:22 p.m., according to the NTSB.
Rico says 'train 111'? That's scary...

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