Travel Safety Advisory: (SB-09-12) NTSB Determined Engineer's Inaccurate Interpretation Of Signals Led To Cause Of A Amtrak Accident In Chicago

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(SB-09-12) NTSB Determined Engineer's Inaccurate Interpretation Of Signals Led To Cause Of A Amtrak Accident In Chicago

Washington, D.C., - The National Transportation Safety Board today determined that the probable cause of a collision of an Amtrak (National Railroad Passenger Corporation) train with the rear of a Norfolk Southern Railway Company (Norfolk Southern) train was the failure of the Amtrak engineer to correctly interpret the signal at Englewood interlocking and Amtrak's failure to ensure that the engineer had the competency to correctly interpret the signal across the different territories over which he operated.

Source: (SB-09-12) NTSB Determined Engineer's Inaccurate Interpretation Of Signals Led To Cause Of A Amtrak Accident In Chicago