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"On Sunday, a Metro-North train heading to New York City&amp;#039;s Grand Central Terminal derailed on a curve, just before reaching Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx. The seven-car train came off the tracks with three cars flipping over, killing four people and injuring more than 60 passengers. Just before the crash, the train was going 82 MPH in a 30 MPH zone, according to federal investigators. The engineer manning the controls, William Rockefeller, reportedly experienced &amp;quot;a daze&amp;quot; and nodded off just before hitting the brakes, says his lawyer Jeffery Chartier. Not saying how long the daze lasted, Rockefeller&amp;#039;s lawyer recounted the engineer&amp;#039;s experiences saying he was &amp;quot;operating the train, coming to a section where the track was still clear\u2014then, all of a sudden, feeling something was wrong and hitting the brakes.&amp;quot; Rockefeller, who has worked for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) for 20 years, is said to be fully cooperating with the case, but is &amp;quot;totally traumatized&amp;quot; by the fatal incident, says Anthony Bottalico, executive director of the Association of Commuter Rail Employees. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is in the middle of investigating the fatal incident, working at the crash scene for at least 10 days. Rockefeller&amp;#039;s alcohol test was negative, blood test results have yet to be released, and officials are still determining whether a mechanical or human error contributed to the excessive train speed. Although the brakes appeared to be operational, the NTSB says they&amp;#039;re looking into the function of the &amp;quot;dead man&amp;#039;s pedal,&amp;quot; which should have slowed the train down as soon as the engineer lifted his foot from it. Our thoughts are with those who were affected by this tragedy. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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