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Engineer in Deadly Metro-North Derailment Had History of Speeding


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The engineer whose commuter rail train derailed in the Bronx last December — killing four — had been tracked speeding several times before the fateful accident, federal investigators said Friday.

An analysis of data recorders that tracked train speed shows that William Rockefeller broke the limit on four out of six runs during the week before the Dec. 1 derailment, the National Transportation Safety Board said.

Rockefeller, who was doing 82 mph on a 30 mph curve when the Metro-North Railroad train flew off the tracks, was also clocked doing 54 mph in a 30 mph zone.

 

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