Philadelphia Personal Injury Lawyers Blog

Evidence has just been disclosed in a lawsuit in California that a train conductor for Connex Railroad was using his phone to send text messages just before a fatal crash last September. An employee from Chatsworth Metrolink, which supplies conductors and engineers to Connex Railroad, informed lawyers that he knew the conductor had been text messaging while on duty and warned the company about this a few days before the crash. This same employee also complained to a co-worker 3 hours before the crash. Federal investigators say that Robert Sanchez, who was driving the train, and also died in the fatal collision, had sent and received dozens of text messages that day(all being violations of company policy), his last having been sent 22 seconds before the collision. The fatal crash resulted in 24 deaths and 135 injuries. I've recently handled a number of train crash cases and know firsthand how careless some engineers can be that ultimately can lead to the unnecessary loss of life.