HOBOKEN — At a press conference on the Hoboken waterfront on Tuesday afternoon, Jim Southworth, the investigator in charge of probing Thursday’s deadly train accident in Hoboken, said the National Transportation Safety Board was able to retrieve an event recorder, video, and the engineer’s personal effects (including a cell phone) from the train this morning around 10:30 a.m.
The evidence from the crash was immediately shipped to Washington, D.C. for further investigation. They were received in D.C. at 3 p.m.
The engineer had said that he had locked his cell phone away in the train before his morning run.
So far, officials have not been able to say what caused the crash, which killed Hoboken mom Fabiola de Kroon and injured more than 100 people Thursday morning.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday afternoon, an official spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity and told them, according to an article, that investigators estimate the train was “traveling two to three times the 10 mph speed limit when it slammed into a New Jersey rail terminal last week” and that “the estimate is based on the extent of damage, not on data from the train’s instruments.”
The driver had said the train was going 10 miles per hour, but that he couldn’t remember the crash. Witnesses have said the train did not slow down enough before entering the terminal.
Workers were trying to fix the damage last week (pictured: the accident site, after the crash).
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BREAKING: Feds retrieve event recorder, video, and engineer’s cell phone from crashed Hoboken train; official tells AP that train went 20-30 MPH
