[Loud Mime]

a radio station out here claimed that the engineer was texting his girlfriend.....I have no idea if that’s accurate.

[ErnBatavia]

The L.A. Times says there was a "report" that he was exchanging texts with a group of teenage 'train aficianados' right before the crash.

The article stressed, however, that this very same claim surfaced after a Boston train wreck and that one had been disproved.