Misplaced Blame?
September 14th, 2008 - 1:35 pm
It’s been interesting to me how quickly Metrolink has been to immediately blame the engineer driving the passenger train for causing the recent train collision, especially since the NTSB has been saying it’s too early to tell and then this:
At a press conference late Saturday, National Transportation Safety Board member Kitty Higgins said it was too early to determine the cause of the crash but noted that a pair of “switches” that control whether a train goes into a siding were open. One of them should have been closed, Higgins said.
“The indication is that it was forced open,” possibly by the Metrolink train, Higgins said of one of the switches.
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It was reported that the passenger train didn’t stop for the red light. If correct as reported, the blame falls with the passenger train.
We had CNN on yesterday evening while we were busy packing Lin’s stuff up, to hear any news about Houston, and every twenty minutes the chirpy talking head breathlessly repeated that the wreck had been caused because the engineer was text messaging. May be true. May not. As of yesterday, they hadn’t listened to the recordings on the train, hadn’t looked at cell phone records, and the investigation isn’t over, so it seems a little premature for the news to already to have decided what caused it, and yet, they do. I know they all want to break the story, no matter what story, but I prefer my news to be factual, which means waiting to hear what the full investigation has to say about it.