Live 1: Metrolink Crash
The morning after a Metrolink commuter train collided head-on with a Union Pacific freight train in Chatsworth, rescuers found more victims in the wreckage.
A six-part series on the Sept. 12, 2008, Metrolink crash in Chatsworth and the fight over national rail safety that followed.
The morning after a Metrolink commuter train collided head-on with a Union Pacific freight train in Chatsworth, rescuers found more victims in the wreckage.
Rescue crews and federal investigators continue working through the Metrolink and Union Pacific train wreckage.
Metrolink spokeswoman Denise Tyrrell said the commuter train’s engineer failed to stop at a red signal before the head-on collision.
Eleven days after the Chatsworth crash, California lawmakers in Washington pressed rail officials for modern safety measures.
Nearly a month after the Metrolink crash in Chatsworth that killed 25 people and injured 135, state and federal lawmakers met to examine what went wrong.