Posted on 05/14/2015 5:09:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Vegan diet
FWIW, lack of memory with regard to a severely traumatic event is pretty common.
Possible. But it would also mean the engineer wasn't monitoring the train's speed for that 11 minutes or he'd have taken some action well before then.
NY Daily News — “Goggin claimed Bostian is indeed cooperating with authorities and voluntarily turned over his phone and a blood sample.”
Let’s see if he shaves his head à la Britney Spears. Even if he does, he will still leave some follicular evidence that can and will be used to test him for drugs.
ABC News reported his lawyer was provided by his Union.
I was opening these FR threads at over 100 per hour. Last thing I remember was clicking on the title...
I don’t recall what was in it.
Given the predilections of the train’s conductor, he probably assumed that centrifugal force had become an artificial construct.
If he listens to his lawyer then no, he won't remember that.
They already got a blood sample at the hospital right after the accident.
H! Leads the way on not recalling...
The locomotive is electric and has 8600 peak hp. Think Tesla.
Hitting the brakes may have been the wrong move.
A locomotive’s throttle is a smallish lever; move it one way the locomotive speeds up, move it the other, it slows down. In that regard, running a locomotive is a lot like driving a car. Also, as with a car, the operator is going to get a good instinctive feel of how fast he’s going. IOW, a reasonably straightforward job in good weather. That leaves deliberate operator misconduct as the most likely explanation,followed by operator impairment, mechanical defect, and sabotage as lesser, possible, causes, all of which need to be investigated.
I know it is his right to lawyer up, but why would he feel the need to? People died and many are injured. I would lay myself at the mercy of the investigation IF I DID NOTHING WRONG.
And, he did have the presence of mind to find his stuff, gather his belongings and call 911.
Not a vegan.
Ok thanks.
So I still sort of think something malfunctioned. I don’t see a reason to get up to 106mph for 5 or so minutes and then have to dramatically slow down for the 50mph curve? It just seems odd to me? Trains take a while to slow back down. If you have less than 11 minutes, there’s no reason to be up at that 106 speed.
Because it doesn't matter if you're pure as the driven snow, you don't talk to anyone who is investigating you for a crime without an attorney present.
Being hard on the brakes in the turn adds forces to help tip the train over to get off the tracks.
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