City rail union yanked off investigation team looking into derailment

thisnumbersdisconnected · Dec 4, 2013

Fox News: NTSB yanks rail union from New York City commuter train crash investigation

The National Transportation Safety Board has pulled a union representing commuter rail employees from its investigation into the derailment of a Metro-North train that killed four people and injured more than 60 others in the Bronx early Sunday.

The NTSB said late Tuesday that the board removed the Association of Commuter Rail Employees (ACRE) from its status as a participant in the investigation over a press conference held earlier in the day by the union's general chairman, Anthony Bottalico.

At the presser, Bottalico admitted that the train's engineer, William Rockefeller, had dozed off moments before the derailment, which occurred at a sweeping curve in the track near the Spuyten Duyvil station on Metro-North's Hudson Line. The NTSB investigation has determined that the train was going 82 miles per hour in a 30 mph zone at the time of the crash.
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According to a statement released by the NTSB late Tuesday, the NTSB invited ACRE and other organizations and agencies to provide technical expertise during the investigation, on the condition that they not reveal or comment on investigative information.

"While we value the technical expertise that groups like ACRE can provide during the course of an investigation, it is counterproductive when an organization breaches the party agreement and publicly interprets or comments on investigation information," said NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman in the statement.
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What I want to know is why a party with a vested interest in the outcome of the investigation is allowed to be part of the investigation? Do police departments let the prime suspect have a say in the investigative process?

This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of, outside of the healthcare act.

just-want-peace · Dec 4, 2013

TND: "What I want to know is why a party with a vested interest in the outcome of the investigation is allowed to be part of the investigation? Do police departments let the prime suspect have a say in the investigative process?
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of, outside of the healthcare act."

Interesting! As I started reading this post this was my question before I got past the "headline"!

Just one more instance of the inmates running the asylum.

This country is going to the ???? I was going to say "to the dogs", but, IMHO, that would be an insult to dogs.

exscentric · Dec 4, 2013

Better watch what you say, the NTSB AND ACRE might be invited to sit on that death panel you will one day face.

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