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Aug 13, 2019 · Former Metro-North Railroad engineer William Rockefeller has dropped his $10 million lawsuit against the commuter rail nearly three years after claiming the railroad’s failure to install a...
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Dec 7, 2013 · Engineer in Metro-North Crash Is Called Dedicated and Kind. William Rockefeller after a train he was driving derailed in the Bronx. Eric Thayer/Reuters. By Joseph Berger. Dec. 6, 2013....
- Pivotal Point For Lawsuit
- 'Significant Differences'
- Another Engineer Caught Speeding
The papers were filed by Metro-North attorneys Monday in their bid to have Judge Vincent Briccetti dismiss the case before it goes to trial. The case has reached a pivotal phase. If Briccetti allows the case to proceed, Metro-North could agree to settle the case or risk going to trial and letting a jury decide who’s to blame. This appears to be the...
In court papers filed Monday, Peterson says he compared one of Rockefeller’s runs on the same train from Nov. 24, 2013 with the derailment run and found “significant differences” in Rockefeller’s speed. “Moreover, the event recorder data from the derailment run of train #8808 demonstrates multiple instances where Mr. Rockefeller failed to perform h...
“Specifically, Manley’s train’s speed was significantly lower than Rockefeller, Manley attempted to control the train speed prior to entering the curve (while Rockefeller failed to exert any control prior to his train derailing) and, most significantly, Manley’s train did not derail or result in any injury or person or property,” he writes. He note...
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The Bronx district attorney’s office said that it would not charge William Rockefeller, who fell asleep as the train approached a sharp curve, in the accident that left four people dead.
Dec 2, 2016 · NEW YORK -- An engineer who fell asleep at the controls of a Metro-North train and caused a derailment that killed four people in New York City sued the railroad Thursday, saying its negligence...
Dec 1, 2016 · William Rockefeller is seeking $10 million in the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court, saying he suffers from multiple injuries, including post-traumatic stress disorder, as a result of the Dec. 1, 2013, derailment. Besides the deaths, more than 70 people were injured. Through a spokesman, Metro-North said it does not comment on pending litigation.
Oct 28, 2014 · And as for the Bronx derailment near the Spuyten Duyvil station on the Hudson Line, the NTSB said engineer William Rockefeller's sleepiness was due to a combination of an undiagnosed disorder...
