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Collision of Metrolink Train 111 With Union Pacific Train LOF65-12
National Transportation Safety Board
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Transportation & maritime · 12 September 2008Open File evidence →
The 2008 Chatsworth Train Collision
Ventura Subdivision milepost 444.123 near tunnel 28 · United States
Why editors use it hereFinal investigation for exact site, chronology, casualties, survival, signal evidence, probable cause, PTC, and recommendations.
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At 4:22 p.m.
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Trigger and conditions
Train 111's engineer did not appropriately respond to approach indications and the red signal at Control Point Topanga.
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Uncertainty
Contemporary reports briefly gave changing death and injury totals.
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Why it matters
Distraction explains the engineer's missed signal, but a safe system must also anticipate a single human error.
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