Saturday, December 3, 2016

Chutzpah: 'Engineer Who Fell Asleep At Controls Before 2013 Derailment Sues Metro-North for $10M'

Chutzpah: 'Engineer Who Fell Asleep At Controls Before 2013 Derailment Sues Metro-North for $10M'

December 03, 2016 Chutzpah: 'Engineer Who Fell Asleep At Controls Before 2013 Derailment Sues Metro-North for $10M' , 1 Comments


By NBC, Dec. 01, 2016 

The engineer who nodded off at the controls of a Metro-North train just before it derailed in the Bronx in 2013, killing four people and injuring more than 70 others, is suing the railroad for $10 million.

Attorneys for William Rockefeller filed the suit in federal court on Thursday morning, alleging that the railroad acted negligently by not providing mechanisms that would automatically slow trains as they approached a dangerous curve near the Spuyten Duyvil station or an alerter to keep an engineer in the control cab alert before the Dec. 1, 2013, crash.

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  1. AnonymousDecember 3, 2016 at 1:14 PM

    Allow William Rockefeller to sue and when and if he wins, freeze all monetary allowances and give to his victims. I see he didn't care if their were automatic and robotic mechanisms to watch over him as he slept in the previous years he was an
    engineer. Then someone file charges of reckless endangerment and murder against him.

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