Home video may offer clue about deadly Glenview train derailment
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By Larry Yellen, FOX 32 News Legal Analyst - bio | email
CHICAGO (FOX 32 News) -
A home video taken just moments after the deadly coal train derailment in Glenview may contain a key clue about the Union Pacific Railroad's actions before the incident.
On the home video of the July 4 derailment, you can hear sirens in the background, suggesting it was taken moments after the crash..while emergency personnel were still on the way.
In the distance, further up the tracks, there's a white, high-rail truck, moving toward the derailed coal cars. It couldn't have been far away when the accident occurred.
When FOX Chicago News asked Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis who was driving that truck, he said, "I don't know who that might be."
The answer could be critical to determining whether Union Pacific employees knew about a sunkink in the tracks before the accident.
The railroad says the derailment caused the bridge to collapse, killing a Glenview couple, Burton and Zorine Lindner.
Despite holding a public hearing two nights ago, the railroad admits it's still putting together a precise timeline of the events that day. The railroad now says a signal maintainer noticed something out of the ordinary on the morning of the 1:30 p.m. derailment and called for a track inspector. But the track inspection did not take place before the derailment occurred.
That could be the signal maintainer driving that white truck, but if it's the track inspector, it suggests he was near the scene before the accident. and had either found no problems, or at least not enough to stop the trains from passing through.
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