Category Archives: Transportation Safety


May

14

2015
Advanced Safety System May Have Prevented Crash

Advanced Safety System May Have Prevented Crash

For more than four decades, the National Transportation Safety Board badgered presidents and lawmakers to adopt a sophisticated automated railway safety system. It finally got its way, and the system is supposed to be installed nationwide by the end of the year. But that’s too late for the passengers and crew on an Amtrak Northeast Regional Train, seven of whom were killed and scores more…

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