Metrolink Train Crash – Was Distracted Driving the “Cause”?
Two previous blog posts have discussed the Metrolink accident:
http://www.taproot.com/content/2008/09/13/metrolink-union-pacific-freight-trains-collide-in-california/
A current Associate Press story continues to push the idea that a distracted train engineer is the “cause” of the accident. It seems that 20 seconds before the accident, he sent a text message.
This doesn’t answer the question I posed in a previous post:
” Why is a single human action safeguard the only thing
between life and death of hundreds of passengers?”
Don’t forget, all safeguards are fallible. Sometimes multiple safeguards are a must to protect human life.
