The MTA train crash

The MTA train crash

$5.25

Vol XCIII, No. 311

Tuesday April 8, 2014

William Rockefeller

What happen

This is the driver of the train

What is being done to prevent a disaster like this.......

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On the morning of December 5, 2013 a MTA train derailed in the Bronx because the driver fell asleep. The train derailed injuring more then sixty people and killing four.The brakes on the train were fine.

-Improve the rails and the system that run them to ensure this type of situation does not happen again.

Four people died 63 injured

by Sereen Abu Saab

facts

-The system, however, was installed in the locomotive, which was powering the train from rear.

-The “alerter” system sounds a warning after 25 seconds of inactivity from the engineer. It can activate the brakes automatically if the engineer does not respond to the warning in 15 seconds.