tags: Timeline 2014, public driver error, dozing driver, train, failure to stop, fired, non-terrorist
March 24, 2014. Driver Claims Sleeping Caused Train To Ram Into Escalator at Chicago Airport At the Chicago O'Hare airport station, a an eight-car train rammed beyond the stop with such force that it climbed the escalator adjacent to the passenger platform. The driver admitted she may have dozed off, and she was fired as it was her second safety violation. She had started in January and previously admitted to dozing February 1st, and had missed a blue line stop. CTA doubts her story as she had to step out to open the train doors and look out an open window for passengers before closing the doors just minutes before at the previous stop. The union claimed she had a overworked schedule, but CTA believed it was an unlikely excuse as “There was nothing about that operator’s work schedule that suggests fatigue should have played a role in her performance”.
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No connection to terrorism was even speculated by media or bloggers.
Sources:
Chicago Tribune - by Richard Wronski - 13 hours ago
The operator also acknowledged she previously dozed off onduty Feb. 1 and had missed a Blue Line stop at Belmont, theNTSB said
Union President Robert Kelly has said the operator, a fill-in employee, had worked a “very chaotic” schedule before the crash.
Despite the operator’s claims of fatigue, the CTA on Friday reiterated its position that this was an unlikely excuse.
“There was nothing about that operator’s work schedule that suggests fatigue should have played a role in her performance,” spokesman Brian Steele said.
The agency said the operator worked 55 hours in the seven days preceding the incident and was off for 18 hours before the shift during which the wreck occurred.
The CTA contends the operator had to perform physical tasks indicating she was alert in the minutes preceding the crash.
Because of the configuration of the Blue Line stations, operators have to step out of their cabs to manually open the train doors, look out an open window for passengers before closing the doors, then return to the cab, Steele said... [did this only 5 minutes before at previous stop].
..required to manually reduce the train speed about 45 seconds before it entered the tunnel into the station, Steele said....required the operator’s attention minutes, and likely less than a minute, before the crash,” he said.
Operator of crashed O'Hare train fired
http://cnn.it/1fIXNla
he driver of a train that jumped the tracks last month at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport -- after having reportedly "dozed off" -- has been fired, a transit authority spokeswoman said Friday.
The early morning incident at one of the nation's busiest airports was the operator's second serious safety violation, according to Chicago Transit Authority spokeswoman Tammy Chase. That said, Chase said the woman was primarily terminated because of the severity of that crash, which injured 32 people
wreck occurred at 2:52 a.m. on March 24, when an eight-car train failed to stop at the end of the Blue Line when it arrived at the airport station, a Chicago fire official said. The lead car appeared to have climbed an escalator adjacent to the passenger platform.
"I've investigated many accidents and trains do different things," National Transportation Safety Board investigator Tim DePaepe said of the train climbing the escalator. "It's all about kinetic force. I have not seen an accident like this, personally."
A union official told reporters last month that the train's driver may have fallen asleep, CNN affiliate WLS reported.
"There are indications that she dozed off, yes,"
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