Trolley driver Aiden Quinn pleaded guilty on Wednesday to gross negligence by a person in control of a common Carrier and received a sentence of two years probation and 100 hours of community service.
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The National Transportation Safety Board released a docket of evidence being used to investigate the May 8, 2009 Green Line trolley crash near the Government Center station. The final report is still months away. Immediately after the crash, people were reportedly "in a panic state." The docket includes interviews with Jimmy Zhu and Charles A. Hanna, two operators working on the attached, two-trolley set at the time of the crash. The NTSB didn't interview Aiden Quinn, the operator who allegedly caused the accident by texting while driving the trolley. Quinn pleaded not guilty to gross negligence by a person in control of a train and faces up to three years in prison. The public docket. [Globe]
Universal Hub reports that the NTSB has suggested that Therese Edmonds might have crashed her Green Line trolley due to a "micro-sleep episode" triggered by job fatigue and undiagnosed sleep apnea, not, as was originally reported, the Doxylamine in her bloodstream. Adam Gaffin's headline says it all.
On June 1st last year, the National Transportation Safety Board recreated last May's green line crash in order to gain more insight into what happened that fateful day. More than a year later, the board has released its report, which indicates that the car's driver ran through a properly functioning signal en route to the crash. While driver Terrese Edmonds' train did run a working signal, the crash was caused by hitting a train stopped at a malfunctioning signal. This broken signal had been stuck on red for some time; investigators found that broken track section connections were the cause of the perpetual stop sign.
--Coverage of yesterday's rally on the Common protesting Chinese repression in Tibet. [BU Daily Free Press, Boston Globe]
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