Home Video May Hold Clue in Fatal Train Derailment Case
As the investigation into the July 4 train derailment and subsequent bridge collapse that killed a Glenview couple continues, Union Pacific officials change their initial statement regarding rail inspections.
Three weeks after the train derailment and bridge collapse that killed Glenview couple Burton and Zorine Lindner, details from a home video may provide clues regarding Union Pacific’s actions before the accident, FOX news reports. (Watch the video here). For a look at ongoing developments and links to Patch's coverage of the derailment/bridge collapse and investigation thus far, click here. According to a Tribune report, there have been several discrepancies with Union Pacific’s timeline account of rail inspections leading up the incident. This includes retraction of a statement from railroad officials that the tracks had been checked for heat-related expansion just hours before the derailment and bridge collapse. Listen: 911 calls …
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Curious Resident
8:20 pm on Wednesday, July 25, 2012
So let me get this straight...it wasn't inspected, yet the signal monitor called in a kink and an inspector arrived just as the bridge collapsed?!?!?!?!?! Oh and the press took their comment out of context of two times per week to twice a day...right?!?!?! So, I'll say pigs can fly...what's next we really thought there were no other victims under the bridge before we put the gravel down...further… more ›