Attorney believes speed caused DuPont train derailment
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MyNorthwest.com
December 18, 2017 at 7:02 pm
The Amtrak incident near DuPont is strikingly similar to the
2015 Philadelphia train derailment, according to an attorney in the case that stemmed from it.
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Train derailment prevention
What caused the train derailment is still unknown, but Mongeluzzi said that there is a technology that could have prevented the incident —
positive train control.
“What this raises is why there isn’t positive train control protecting the men and women who ride trains …” Mongeluzzi said. “
Positive train control would have prevented Amtrak 188 … I think what we are going to learn here is that positive train control … would have prevented this catastrophe.”...
