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The regulatory board in charge of California’s railroads has issued a temporary ban on the use of cell phones by anyone who is operating a moving train. The ban came in response to last week’s Chatsworth train crash, which investigators suspect happened just minutes after the engineer controlling the train was sending text messages from its cabin.
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Federal officials investigating last week’s train crash in Chatsworth have confirmed that the engineer operating the commuter train involved in the crash was text messaging at work on the day of the accident. At least 25 people were killed and more than 130 injured when a Metrolink commuter train collided head on with a freight train traveling on the same track.
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The family of a 19-year-old college student who was killed in last week’s Chatsworth train crash has announced that they will file a lawsuit against the Southern California Regional Train Authority in the wake of the accident.
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A commuter train bound from Los Angeles collided head-on with a freight train on Friday, killing 25 and injuring at least 135 crew and passengers. The collision occurred while the two trains were traveling along a single rail line near the town of Chatsworth in the San Fernando Valley.
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A jury in Maryland has awarded eight railroad workers a total of $19.3 million in their railroad injury lawsuit against CSX Transportation Inc. The lawsuit alleged that dangerous working conditions at the CSX rail yard caused all eight of the victims to develop serious lower body injuries.
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