NY commuter train was going faster than speed limit, NTSB says
NEW YORK _ The engineer who was driving the Long Island Rail Road train that crashed through a barrier at the end of the tracks in Brooklyn Wednesday was going faster than the speed limit in that area of Atlantic Terminal and told investigators that he can't remember the crash.
"The engineer was unable to recall striking the end of the track. He does recall entering into the station and controlling the speed of the train. And the next thing he realized was after the collision," said National Transportation Safety Board investigator Ted Turpin in a briefing Thursday at a Brooklyn hotel.
The train was going at least 10 mph, twice the speed limit, Turpin said.
The engineer, who has worked for the LIRR since 1999, was making his first trip after three days off, Turpin said.
Turpin said investigators recovered two event recorders, while a third one in the lead car is "compromised."
The crash injured more than 100 people, none of them seriously.
Around 8:15 a.m. Wednesday, the Brooklyn-bound train, which originated in Far Rockaway and was carrying about 430 passengers, crashed into a bumping block at the end of the tracks at Atlantic Terminal.
_Newsday
