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September 13, 2008 (by Otto Smyth)

The September 12, 2008, Chatsworth Metrolink accident takes a positive turn. A least the passengers won’t have to argue over who is at fault. According to a statement by spokesperson Denise Tyrell Saturday with Metrolink taking full responsibility for the Chatsworth crash that fatally injured 18 passengers and injured at least 135.

Metrolink has determined that the train engineer did not stop for a red light and did not move to an outer track that would have kept the train out of the path of the Union Pacific train.

Metrolink has made a public apology for their part in the crash and said that this is new territory for them.

Tyrell also stated that the engineer was contracted through a company named Violia and she went on to say that Metrolink has been subcontracting with this company since 1998. Tyrell went on to say that even when one of their trains is on the main track there are signals that they must heed and they are unsure why this error occurred.

The responsibility for the Metrolink accident has taken in for the Friday afternoon crash comes before the National Transportation Safety Board has made any public announcements on their findings. Metrolink arrived at this conclusion by investigating the dispatch and signal system and made took responsibility to the public as soon as they had the information.

September 12, 2008 (by Otto Smyth)

Just in, September 12, Chatsworth train accident. Breaking story for today by a California train injury law firm in Los Angeles. According to incoming reports by Chatsworth train accident attorneys, there was an accident today at approximately 4:32 a.m. between a freight train and a Metrolink commuter train.

According to Inspector Ron Haralson of the Los Angeles Fire Department, one of the passenger cars of the commuter train rolled on its side during the collision and firefighters had to battle a fire under some of the wreckage.

Haralson went on to say that he is certain there are injuries, many injuries and firemen extracted passengers through one of the cars that were torn open in the crash.

The accident occurred in the vicinity of Heatherlee Lane and Endora Avenue in Chatsworth in the San Fernando Valley. If you were injured in this most recent metro rail accident, contact Chatsworth train accident attorneys with experience at 888-400-9721. Protect your legal rights. newspersonal injury attorney los angeles