“Safety needs to come from the top.” You’ve probably heard that one before. However, a federal agency had to remind a public transit provider of that again in its report on what caused a fatal train crash in Washington, DC.

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Tags: National Transportation Safety Board, train crash, Washington DC Metro

A National Transportation Safety Board investigation shows a collision between two trains in California in 2008 that killed 25 people and injured 102 more was caused by the engineer running a red light while text-messaging.

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Tags: cell phones, Metrolink, NTSB, texting, train crash