backstop for train drivers facing a increasingly trem job. they re asked to be do more than ever before. he s asked to do the job of two to three people. jeff kline is the engineer of a commuter train in chicago that transports hundreds of people per day. what were you watching coming out? signals, crossing gates, pedestrians, pedometer. he s piloting a seven car train 100 miles through suburban chicago and he has to divide his attention between signals, sounds and safety. about how fast are we going? 60 miles an hour. and how long would it take to stop? a control stop like coming into a station, probably take about four-tenths of a mile. and that would take almost a full minute. and then there s the dead man
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the driver pronounced dead at the scene. no one on the train hurt. officials say the crossing gates and signals were working. and on saturday. this shocking video of a fatal crash in louisville, kentucky. we have four patients. be advised they re all critical. the freight train barreling down the track, at the same time a car plow through the intersection. signals flashing, but no gate to stop the driver. got flashing lights there. two people inside the white camry died. last month this crash in new york leaving six people dead. oh, my god. just last week, this amtrak train in halifax county, north carolina smashing into a semi. derailing and injuring 50 passengers. all the accidents being investigated. with some experts citing driver distraction as a contributing factor. that is probably a part of the increase. investigators of these accidents, whether it is the
to the train car. eyewitness news learned the third rail is likely what killed most if not all of the five passengers who died. before the flames, indeed before the train came to a stop and the survivors ran for their lives. i couldn t tell you if i was thinking am i go to die. i was like i need to get out of here right now. reporter: as you would expect after a plane crash, the ntsb recovered data from the recorders on every car of the train, even the crossing gates at that crossing. we could get data from the ntsb from those recorders sometime later today. in terms of the explanation for this horrible crash, investigators say it could take up to a year to come up with one. that s assuming they come up with one at all. josh einiger, abc news, valhalla, new york. we turn now to a deadly crash scene in lubbock, texas. after a small plane slammed in to the tower of a tv station. the pilot was killed when the plane sheered the 800 foot tower in half. the station was knocked off th
comment were unsuccessful. two workers on board the train, an engineer and the conductor, are uninjured. investigators say the conductor gave three horn blasts as the train neared the crossing. the ntsb s report states in part that the access road is marked only with cross buck signs and nonstandard stop signs, and there are no active warning lights or crossing gates in place. eyewitnesses are still stunned by what they saw. about two weeks, that s all we were talking about was the explosion. i m going, i ll always remember this. back up. [ explosion ] oh, my god! coming up dish a struggle for survival. he just started shooting randomly. that s when i reached for the bat and started swinging back, fighting for his life.
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