engineer s lawyer will present? absolutely. frankly, if i were a train engineer i would want this positive train control to help me in case i made a mistake. he obviously screwed up here and just to echo what mr. francis was saying this positive control technology that exists amtrak is using in other parts, but this is the busiest corridor in the united states and this is the place you would want to put it in first, and why they didn t do that i don t know. possibly a funding issue and managing issue. and amtrak is in trouble when it comes to civil lawsuits? yeah they are going to be liability on management decisions not to use the positive control in the busiest rail and there could be a criminal prosecution of the engineer for manslaughter, and those are all things coming down
i suspect folks will gradually recover, and you get better from broken bones, and i don t think there will be lasting affects, because most were broken bones. reporter: [ inaudible ]? the question is do we have any remaining unidentified people? and the answer is no. all the folks here are ones that we know. and their families know they are here and the various countries know they are here. we are going to step away but it s a relief that doctors know who everybody is in the hospital so families can tend to them as well. the doctor giving an interesting account of how the injuries occurred onboard that train. i want to get back to the investigation now, because erin you were just telling us the engineer that was driving the
on the emergency brakes. the engineer is not talking to investigators but he has talked to his lawyer who says bostian does not remember what happened. as a result of the concussion he has no recollection whatsoever of the events and i am told his memory is likely to return as the concussion symptoms subside. he remembers come into the curve, and he remembers attempting to reduce speed thereafter he was knocked out and thrown around like all the other passengers in the train. what is it like staring down the tracks at 100 miles per hour knowing something bad is going to happen. randi kaye sat down at a train simulator to find out. reporter: so you actually train these engineers. take us through right now what it would feel like going around a bend at about 50 miles per hour. okay.
you listen to the statements what his lawyer made his client remembers applying the brakes and nothing after that and we know what happened it derailed and it was a catastrophe, and the lawyer said he remembers the important pieces of information we want to know about. as you are investigating a crash like this you are not getting any cooperation from the engineer but you know the train was traveling at about 106 miles per hour when it approached the curve, so from what you can ascertain from watching this over the past day or so how do you suppose the accident went down? the one thing that i am not totally clear on, and maybe you can educate me is 105 or 100 plus normal for riding the northeast car or when the road
that story. let s talk about it more with transportation accident attorney andrew malone and a investigator. bob, you have heard people say, i just don t remember what happened? i can t recall that no. do you believe his lawyer who says his client cannot remember anything but eventually his memory may return? i guess, and i am not an expert in this but i find that a little difficult to believe. he was not unconscious. what happens to the memory? maybe that can happen but i am a little skeptical. andrew i know you are a little skeptical, too, because this engineer spent six hours with police talking about the accident? yeah i am skeptical, and if