tragic event. what is amtrak s policies about distractions in the cab? we try to minimize those distractions. they re not allowed to have cell phones. they have to have them shut off and stowed. they can t use them. period? period. reporter: meanwhile, the ntsb is hoping to interview survivors about where they sat on the train and how they managed to escape. we want to find out where they were seated and their injury patterns so we can correlate their seating with the injuries for crash survivability issues crash worthiness issues. that was nbc s tom costello reporting. and now we re joined by nbc s rehema ellis in philadelphia. rehema, good morning. we re also learning more details about the safety system that could have maybe prevented this tragedy. good morning, jose. yes, indeed we are learning more about that. we re also learning that on the
lift up the vehicle and save the person. here they just didn t get the vehicle lifted up off him soon enough. so was the car actually i mean on top of him? could he have slid out if he was conscious? yes. no. because the vehicle was pressed on top of his body. so he had no room to crawl out from the vehicle itself. the injuries, the injury patterns, show that the vehicle was actually pressed on top of his body. this type of accident happens when people are working under their car and the jack slips and the car comes down and presses your chest. you can t breathe. and so you die of this positional asphyxia. this is the same type of death here. clearly the family disagrees with what you believe, disagrees with what dr. bao found. how easy would it be to get a second opinion, to get either another autopsy done or a review of the autopsy that was done? oh, absolutely. and in fact, this case was
would go into ventricular arrhythmia and death. like i say, in other accidents like that, they can lift up the vehicle and save the person. here they didn t get the vehicle lifted off him soon enough. was the car actually on top of him? could he have slid out if he was conscious? yes. no, because the vehicle was pressed on top of his body. so he had no room to crawl out from the vehicle, itself. the injury patterns show that the vehicle was actually pressed on top of his body. this type of accident happens when the jack slips and the car comes down and presses your chest. you can t breathe, so you die of asphyxia. this is the same type of death here. clearly the family disagrees with what you agree with what the doctor found.
collision as may be portrayed in this video . as i say, he ended up in a position where he suffocated. how long would that suffocation take? out would take one to two minutes before he would become unconscious. then four to five to six minutes before his heart would go into ventricular fibrillation, aarithmetic mee i can t and death. sometimes they can lift up the vehicle and save the person. here they didn t get the vehicle off him soon enough. was the car on top of him? could he have slid out if he was conscious? no. the vehicle was pressed on top of his body. he had no room to crawl out from the vehicle itself. the injury patterns show that the vehicle was pressed on top of his body. this type of accident happens when people are working under their car and the jack slips and the car comes down and presses your chest.
collision as may be portrayed in this video. and as i say, he ended up in a position where he suffocated. so how long would that suffocation take? it would take one to two minutes before he would become unconscious, and then four to five to six minutes before his heart would go into ventricular fibrillation, arrythmia and death. like i say, sometimes in other accidents like that they can lift up the vehicle and save the person. here they just didn t get the vehicle lifted up off him soon enough. so was the car actually i mean on top of him? could he have slid out if he was conscious? yes. no. because the vehicle was pressed on top of his body. so he had no room to crawl out from the vehicle itself. the injuries, the injury patterns, show that the vehicle was actually pressed on top of his body. this type of accident happens when people are working under their car and the jack slips and the car comes down and presses