New Neither The Us Govt, Nor Amtrak Convey Learned From Recent Prepare Wrecks Together With Collisions, Together With Proceed To Let To A Greater Extent Than To Happen, Claiming It's Also Expensive To Install Positive Prepare Command Organisation Features.

Thirteen years after a horrifying develop wreck, what many reckon the worst inwards S.C. history, merely 10 miles within the Georgia / South Carolina edge close Augusta Georgia, this yesteryear Lord's Day morn history inevitably repeated, amongst mangled rail cars on a South Carolina track. This time, iv miles S of Columbia. The Amtrak train’s conductor too engineer were killed, too 116 others were hospitalized.

In less than a calendar week a trial has been filed claiming “gross negligence” too “reckless disregard” of security standards yesteryear CSX. The trial also alleges CSX made a “deliberate determination that it volition last cheaper to pay compensatory damages for claims resulting from develop wrecks too derailments than to install too keep an appropriate develop command system.”

The trial also alleges major railroads, including CSX, receive got “defied” a 2008 federal law, called the Rail Safety Improvement Act, yesteryear stalling activity on modern security technology – called “positive develop control.” That technology was to last inwards house nationwide yesteryear Dec. 31, 2015.

That develop security police describe was passed inwards reply the 2008 collision of a Union Pacific freight develop too a Metrolink rider develop that killed 25 too injured 135.

CSX has announced its most of late quarterly profits of $4.14 billion, the trial notes. It is “totally unjustifiable for CSX to receive got annual profits inwards the billions of dollars too simultaneously spend upward to fund Positive Train Control to protect the lives of people who ride on its tracks,” the conform says.

Amtrak’s Silver Service develop from New York to Miami, was operating at 56 mph on railroad tracks “owned, maintained too operated yesteryear CSX,” the trial says.

CSX had taken downwards its betoken organisation along that department of runway too “as a effect the railroad switches were existence manually controlled yesteryear CSX. Train operations were existence manually directed yesteryear CSX through telephone communications,” according to the lawsuit.

Before the Silver Service arrived on the scene, “CSX improperly locked amongst a padlock the rail switch, which erroneously directed through trains, similar the Silver Service train, into the CSX railyard onto the incorrect laid of tracks, which were already occupied yesteryear parked trains too rail cars,” the trial said.

“As a effect of the improper locking of the switch yesteryear CSX, the Silver Service develop was directed onto the incorrect laid of tracks,” the trial says. The Silver Service’s engineer applied the brakes but it was likewise belatedly too his develop “crashed head-on into the idling develop at l mph,” the trial said.

One of ii Amtrak staffers killed inwards Sunday’s crash had told his blood brother he worried most dying inwards a wreck on the rails.

Michael Kempf, 54, was killed Lord's Day when an Amtrak develop ran off the primary track, keen into a parked develop car. Kempf, the train’s engineer, was from Savannah, Ga., too had worked for the companionship to a greater extent than than a decade, after previously working every bit a conductor for CSX too serving inwards the the U.S.A. Army for xx years every bit a tank commander, stationed inwards Republic of Korea too Panama  https://www.facebook.com/michael.kempf.370
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Positive develop command is non known to last inwards move inwards South Carolina. However, nation Sen. Marlon Kimpson, D-Charleston, introduced a pecker Midweek to fine railroads that don’t install it.

Deborah Hersman, a old NTSB chairwoman who instantly is caput of the National Safety Council, said installing the positive develop command organisation has been difficult. Railroad companies receive got been reluctant to install the organisation because they say it is expensive.

“It’s heartbreaking that too therefore footling progress has been made since Graniteville,’’ said Hersman, who assisted amongst the Graniteville accident investigation. “This was virtually the same accident (in Cayce), too both could receive got been prevented yesteryear positive develop control.”

The NTSB said this calendar week that betoken lights were non working at the site of the Cayce crash.

CSX issued a disceptation maxim the railroad “is on track” to come across positive develop command requirements but declined to say whether whatever segments of its S.C. operations receive got the controls.

Sunday’s crash inwards South Carolina, was the tertiary high-profile incident involving an Amtrak develop inwards less than ii months.

The NTSB says it has investigated 146 rail incidents since 1969 that positive develop command could receive got prevented. The cost inwards those incidents is 291 people killed too 6,574 injured.

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