just north of manhattan at a curve in the river, it s called spiten ivel, it s technically in the bronx. a lot more people could have been killed in that crash, the aren t tracks curve is because of how close the rail line gets to the river there. when that train derailed, those cars see the water at the bottom of your screen. those cars went spilling toward the river. had they gone into the river, we may not just have seen blunt force trauma. we may have also seen drownings. both the metro north train and amtrak crash was on a sharp curve, in both of those cases we had trains traveling alone on a sharp curve and conclusively in
crash of 2013 and at least preliminarily, it appears that the cause was the same. it appears that what caused the derailment was the train traveling at a very high rate of speed into a sharp curve. we do not yet know why that happened last night in philadelphia in this derailment that claimed seven lives already and may have claimed more. the ntsb determined that the aren t train engineer was speeding at more than 80 miles an hour going into that 30 mile an hour curve was because the train engineer was tired. he wasn t necessarily completely asleep. he told investigators he was zoning out. he was the guy who had sleep apnea, so he didn t sleep well ever. he had gotten up at 3:30 that morning for his shift. he self-described the problem, he said he basically zoned out
with his hand on the throttle he was going 80 heading into that 30 mile an hour curve, and more than 100 people were sent to the hospital and four people lost their lives. metro north had said they would eventually get around to installing this positive train control system. they were working on it the positive train control system would have overridden him zoning out on the tracks and slowed the train down. they were working on it they were going to get that in place. this crash happened in 2013. the deadline wasn t until the end of 2015 well so what was the rush. the ntsb concluded in that crash, had the positive train control system been in feekt on that december morning in 2013 when the rockefeller center christmas tree was being delivered, had that system been hurried up and put into effect that train crash would have never happened and those people would not have died.
just north of manhattan at a curve in the river, it s called spiten ivel it s technically in the bronx. a lot more people could have been killed in that crash, the aren t tracks curve is because of how close the rail line gets to the river there. when that train derailed those cars see the water at the bottom of your screen. those cars went spilling toward the river. had they gone into the river, we may not just have seen blunt force trauma. we may have also seen drownings. both the metro north train and amtrak crash was on a sharp curve, in both of those cases we had trains traveling alone on a sharp curve and conclusively in the case of the metro north
from amtrak train 188 today. traveling from d.c. to new york at this time last night, when it suddenly derailed and crashed while rounding a curve on its way out of philadelphia. seven people confirmed dead at this point, more than 200 people injured. as to what happened and why. what we ve learned substantively about the derailment has largely come from that data recorder. investigators confirming that the recorder indicates in a the train at the time of the derailment was traveling at more than 100 miles an hour through that curve. more than twice the posted speed limit for that stretch of track. ntsb officials say the train reached a peak speed of 106 miles per hour the train s engineer according to the data on this recorder tried to apply the brakes in the very last few seconds before the derailment and the crash. hitting the brakes when it was going 106, the train was only slowed down to about 102 miles