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Text messaging may have caused train wreck that kills 25 in California!
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and critically injures 45 more.
On channel 2 news, a 15 year old said he was text messaging the engineer of the metro link train that crashed in california about two minutes before the crash. Appears it is a common practice for them to hang out watching the train track and text the train as it goes by like groupies. Perhaps the engineers get an ego boost from this. I can understand a fifteen year old being stupid enuf to not realize the ramifications of this type of action. Can't understand the engineer who is an adult doing it tho.
Hard to believe amtrack [woops, metrolink, not amtrak] lets them. perhaps they didn't know about it. a spokesperson said cell phone use was highly discouraged.
The driver ignored 3 warning red lights, and smashed into a stopped freight train. Possibly due to being distracted by text messaging. Sounds like a serious case of bad judgement by the engineer, who is now dead.
I think the telephone ban in cars includes text messaging here. I suppose it does not include train drivers officially.
I've seen cellphones and texting creating other problems first hand. I witnessed two girls walking against the walk light near the OC Fair while staring at their cell phones, across a 5 lane very busy road and freeway exit. A cop was yelling at them to stop. They continued to walk across anyway. The cop asked them if they had heard him, they said no. A youngish fellow followed them across, similarly on his cell phone.
I was on my bike waitig for the light and said something about outlawing cellphone use while walking, and apparently this really cut to the bone. He said something like "you shouldn't have said that". Wow, some people sure can't admit they did something wrong! He'll probably walk into a car sometime in the future I guess.
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Posted: 09/13/2008 @ 10:37 PM (PDT)
(edited 09/14/2008 @ 03:31 PM (PDT))
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