Why Was Amtrak Train in Deadly Wreck Speeding?
Why Was Amtrak Train in Deadly Wreck Speeding? Thursday May 14 th , 2015 at 12:04 PM Comments On: Why Was Amtrak Train In Deadly Wreck Speeding? 1 Share Robert Sumwalt, of the National Transportation Safety Board, said a data recorder and a video camera in the train’s front end could yield clues to what happened. Amtrak inspected the stretch of track on Tuesday, just hours before the accident, and found no defects, according to the Federal Railroad Administration. Sumwalt said the engineer applied the emergency brakes moments before the crash but slowed the train to only 102 mph by the time the locomotive’s black box stopped recording data. The speed limit just before the bend is 80 mph, he said. The attorney for the engineer at the controls of an Amtrak train that careened off the tracks while traveling at an excessive speed said Thursday his client has no recollection of the accident. Appearing on ABC’s “Good Morning America”, l...