Metrolink train ran red warning signal before crash
November 21, 2008 | 2:55
pm
A Metrolink train ran a red light just before colliding with a freight train Thursday in Rialto, federal investigators said today.
"The Metrolink train ran past a red signal," said Ted Turpin, the National Transportation Safety Board investigator supervising the inquiry. "But we don't know why."
The Rialto crash, which injured five passengers, was the second time in less than three months that a Metrolink train had failed to heed a stoplight before hitting another train.
Investigators in the catastrophic Chatsworth crash in September have said the engineer raced past a red light before slamming into an oncoming freight train, leaving 25 people dead and 135 others injured.
-Robert J. Lopez
