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NEW YORK (AP) — A sleep-deprived engineer nodded off at the controls of a commuter train just before taking a 30 mph curve at 82 mph, causing a derailment last year that killed four people and injured more than 70, federal regulators said Tuesday. William Rockefeller’s sleepiness was due to a combination of an undiagnosed […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — A subway train derailed in a Queens tunnel on Friday, but authorities said there were no immediate reports of injuries. The express F train was bound for Manhattan and Brooklyn when it derailed at 10:40 a.m. about 1,200 feet from the 65th station in Woodside, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Transportation […]

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YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) — An engineer whose speeding commuter train ran off the rails along a curve, killing four people, experienced a hypnosis-like “daze” and nodded at the controls just before the wreck, and by the time he caught himself it was too late, people representing him said Tuesday. Attorney Jeffrey Chartier accompanied engineer William […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — He’s worked on the railroad for two decades, but engineer William Rockefeller‘s life may be defined by what he did in the seconds before his speeding commuter train flew off the tracks along a sharp bend. While investigators have yet to finish talking with him, a darkening cloud of questions is […]

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YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) — The revelation that a New York City commuter train derailed while barreling into a sharp curve at nearly three times the speed limit is fueling questions about whether automated crash-avoidance technology could have prevented the carnage. Safety officials have championed what’s known as positive train control technology for decades, but the […]

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YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board says a train that derailed in New York City was traveling 82 mph as it approached a 30 mph zone. The Metro-North Railroad commuter train jumped the tracks Sunday morning along a sharp curve where the speed limit drops from 70 mph to 30 mph. Four […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City commuter train rounding a riverside curve derailed and came to rest only inches from the water Sunday, killing four people, injuring more than 60 others and sending a chain of toppled cars shaped like a backward question mark trailing off the track, authorities said. Some of the […]