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SMS SOS: Text-Messaging's All-Time Most Stupid Moments 13 (CUT)

by Tom Conlon on June 25, 2009 at 01:59 PM


DRIVING DISASTERS:
Train Engineer Breaks Record, Hearts

The Text
 We might poke fun sometimes at the stupidity of texting whie driving, but many times it's no laughing matter. Such was the case last year when Los Angeles commuter rail conductor Richard Sanchez received and sent text messages seconds before running a red light signal and plowing into a freight train.

The Tragedy
 Records show Sanchez received a text at 4:22:01 PM on September 12, 2008. At 4:22:23 PM, his Metrolink commuter train collided with a Union Pacific freight locomotive killing 25 people (including Sanchez) and injuring another 135 in the worst US train disaster since 1993.

Link
http://www.switched.com/2008/09/20/government-bans-cell-phones-for-train-operators/

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