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Data: MAVEN
Trigger word:
Metrolink
Event Types (Count):
NegTrigger (6)
Negative Trigger
The
Chatsworth
train
collision
occurred
Coming_to_be
at
4:22:23
p.m.
PDT
(
23:22:23
UTC
)
on
Friday
,
September
12
,
2008
,
when
a
Union
Pacific
freight
train
and
a
Metrolink
commuter
train
collided
Self_motion
head-on
in
the
Chatsworth
district
of
Los
Angeles
,
California
.
The
scene
of
the
accident
Catastrophe
was
a
curved
section
of
single
track
on
the
Metrolink
Ventura
County
Line
just
east
of
Stoney
Point
.
According
to
the
National
Transportation
Safety
Board
(
NTSB
)
,
which
investigated
Criminal_investigation
the
cause
of
the
collision
,
the
Metrolink
train
ran through
Motion
a
red
signal
before
entering
Arriving
a
section
of
single
track
where
the
opposing
freight
train
had
been
given
Giving
the
right
of
way
by
the
train
dispatcher
.
The
NTSB
faulted
Judgment_communication
the
Metrolink
train
's
engineer
,
46-year-old
Robert
M.
Sanchez
,
for
the
collision
,
concluding
that
he
was
distracted
by
text
messages
he
was
sending
Sending
while
on
duty
.
With
25
deaths
,
this
became
Becoming
the
deadliest
accident
in
Metrolink
's
history
.
Lawyers
quickly
began
Process_start
filing
claims
against
Metrolink
,
and
in
total
,
they
are
expected
to
exceed
a
US
$
200
million
liability
limit
set
in
1997
,
portending
the
first
legal
challenges
to
that
law
.
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