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News: Probe confirms train engineer's texting on the job

Chicutie

Chicutie

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The Metrolink train engineer involved in last week's fatal collision near Los Angeles sent text messages from his cell phone while on the job, investigators said, although it was unclear whether he was doing so at the time of the crash.
Investigators do a test to find when the engineers of the two trains were able to see each other before the crash.

Investigators do a test to find when the engineers of the two trains were able to see each other before the crash.

The National Transportation Safety Board is looking into claims that the engineer, 46-year-old Robert Sanchez, was sending text messages to two teenagers on Friday when his commuter train slammed into a Union Pacific freight train in Chatsworth, killing two dozen people, including himself.

Investigators subpoenaed the phone records of the engineer and determined that he "had sent and received text messages on the day of the accident, including some while he was on duty," according to an NTSB statement Wednesday.Continued. . ..
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I know this is a different situation, but this made me think about texting while driving. I think it's illegal here in St. Louis, but I still do it anyway. . . I guess because I thought it wasn't really dangerous, bc I felt like I was still paying attention to the road.

I'm seriously rethinking that now. .:smh:

Any of you all text will driving?
 
texting while driving is some flat out ignorant bullshit

people need to stop getting so attached to their cell phones...it's not healthy at all
 
Chicutie said:
I know this is a different situation, but this made me think about texting while driving. I think it's illegal here in St. Louis, but I still do it anyway. . . I guess because I thought it wasn't really dangerous, bc I felt like I was still paying attention to the road.

I'm seriously rethinking that now. .:smh:

Any of you all text will driving?
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:hmm: you need to do more than rethink CC. Stop it. It is NOT that important that it can NOT wait.
I still don't even get the talking on a cellular while driving.
Be safe sis.








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Are text messages really that important, if so why don't you just pull over to the kerb and respond to it there.
 
I won't text while driving anymore. . . but you would be surprised the amount of people who do. I made it a point to count all the people I saw driving and texting. . it was about 20. . on that's on the expressway!

I know I'm not the only one on this board that was doing it. . . The article about the train engineer (among other things l researched just in my area alone) was enough for me to realize how bad it is.

It wasn't a matter of the text being important, it's because I communicate with 90% of people I know through text (even my grandma :lol:). . so when I'm driving I'm getting like constant texts coming. .. and that's how it all began.
 
I know, when stopped at a red light in traffic, I may have a tendency to send a quick text or two. I think I tried once to text and drive, and I was all over into the next person's lane, unable to look at the road AND whatever keys to press at once...it was a mess! Needless to say, I haven't attempted this again...
 
I have done it before. Usually I would wait until I get to a stop sign or a light. But its not smart at all, at least when u talkin and driving, you can still look at the road​
 

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