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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.

An investigation of cell-phone records shows that the Green Line operator who died in the recent MBTA crash was not on her cell phone at the time of the crash.

NECN reports that investigators will re-create last Wednesday's green line crash (minus the crash part) in Newton this afternoon. Officials have determined that the train that crashed into another train was going nearly 30 miles per hour faster than it should have been, and have verified that traffic signals in the area were in working order. The MBTA would like to find out what happened last Wednesday in order to determine the reasons for the crash and to prevent a similar tragedy in the future. The test will take about three hours, and the green line will be closed for it. Passengers will be bussed from Newton Highlands to Riverside during the test, and green line service is expected to return to normal for the Monday morning commute.

--Investigators of the fatal Green Line D rear-end crash said they have not found evidence that driver Terrese Edmonds, who was killed, applied the brakes. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald]

The operator of the Green Line D train who died in last night's rear-end crash was Terrese Edmonds. She was only 24 years old, and she liked her job. Bostonist saw her father being interviewed by WBZ last night, saying how he thought it was her in that car and how he hadn't heard from her. The look on his face was heart-wrenching. It took seven hours to remove Edmonds' body from the wreckage.