{"id":1491,"date":"2015-06-02T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allenandallen.com\/deadly-philadelphia-amtrak-train-crash-likely-preventable-with-use-of-technology\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T14:13:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T19:13:38","slug":"el-mortal-accidente-de-tren-de-amtrak-en-filadelfia-podria-haberse-evitado-con-el-uso-de-tecnologia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allenandallen.com\/es\/blog\/deadly-philadelphia-amtrak-train-crash-likely-preventable-with-use-of-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidente mortal de tren de Amtrak en Filadelfia probablemente prevenible con el uso de tecnolog\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As news of the deadly Amtrak crash in Philadelphia reverberates around the nation, there are still more questions than answers about what may have caused the train to rapidly accelerate from approximately 70 mph up to 106 mph before entering the sharp curve at Frankford Junction.\u00a0 Investigators are still trying to determine what contributed to this crash: human error, equipment malfunction, or other factors altogether.\u00a0 What is becoming clear is that this wreck could likely have been avoided by the use a technological advance called Positive Train Control (PTC).<\/p>\n<p>The technology to implement PTC has existed for decades.\u00a0As early as 1990, 25 years before this crash, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) listed PTC as among its \u201cMost Wanted List of Transportation Safety Improvements.\u201d<a title=\"\" href=\"#ftn1\">[1]<\/a>\u00a0 Positive Train Control has the following characteristics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Train separation and collision avoidance, and<\/li>\n<li>Speed enforcement <a title=\"\" href=\"#ftn2\">[2]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Essentially, PTC has the ability to take control of a train from a conductor to prevent operator errors (or other equipment failures) that may lead to an accident.\u00a0 Using a GPS system coupled with radios and computers, Positive Train Control monitors the locations of trains and intervenes in their operation to prevent them from running into each other, crashing due to excessive speed, and to keep trains from entering areas on the track where maintenance is underway.<a title=\"\" href=\"#ftn3\">[3]<\/a>\u00a0 The technology was designed to eliminate the human error element from train crashes.\u00a0The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has estimated that up to 40% of train accidents in the United States occur at least in part due to human error.<a title=\"\" href=\"#ftn4\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the case of the Amtrak crash in Philadelphia, Positive Train Control may have been able to prevent the train from accelerating dramatically as it approached the 50 mph curve at Frankford Junction.\u00a0 NTSB Board Member Robert Sumwalt minced no words on the subject, \u201c[w]e are very keen on positive train control.\u00a0 [If such a system had been in operation], this accident would not have occurred.\u201d<a title=\"\" href=\"#ftn5\">[5]<\/a>\u00a0 The Washington Post has reported that Positive Train Control was installed in the area of this accident, but that the system was not activated because Amtrak claimed that more testing was needed.<a title=\"\" href=\"#ftn6\">[6]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The NTSB has reported that up to 29 other railway accidents in the U.S. could have been prevented by the use of Positive Train Control systems.\u00a0 ABC News has reported that sixty-eight people have died and more than 1,000 more have been injured in those 29 crashes, which does not include the latest figures from the Philadelphia crash.<a title=\"\" href=\"#ftn7\">[7]<\/a>\u00a0 In 2013, a train derailment in the Bronx that killed four passengers may have been prevented by this technology.\u00a0 The conductor in that crash fell asleep and failed to slow the train down as it entered a curve at with a 30 mph speed limit at over 80 mph.<a title=\"\" href=\"#ftn8\">[8]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Congress passed a law mandating the implementation of Positive Train Control by the end of 2015.\u00a0 After years of complaints by Amtrak and other operators about the expense of the system, a bill has been proposed in the Senate to grant Amtrak and other carriers until 2020 and beyond to fully implement the system.<a title=\"\" href=\"#ftn9\">[9]<\/a>\u00a0 Former NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman has said publicly, \u201cIf we do not implement technology such as PTC to prevent these events, we will continue to see them for the foreseeable future.\u201d<a title=\"\" href=\"#ftn10\">[10]<\/a>\u00a0 It seems clear that we can expect even more deadly crashes such as the one in Philadelphia if this technology is not implemented.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>About the Author:<\/strong> <\/em>Scott Fitzgerald is a personal injury attorney practicing with the Allen Law Firm. His practice areas include car accidents, motorcycle accidents, bicycle accidents, and drunk driving accidents. Scott was recently named one of the National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40 in Virginia.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" name=\"ftn1\"><\/a>[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/news\/press-releases\/Pages\/NTSB_Urges_Federal_Railroad_Administration_to_Evaluate_Safety_of_Lone-Engineer_Operations.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/news\/press-releases\/Pages\/NTSB_Urges_Federal_Railroad_Administration_to_Evaluate_Safety_of_Lone-Engineer_Operations.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" name=\"ftn2\"><\/a>[2] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/safety\/mwl\/Pages\/mwl4_2015.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/safety\/mwl\/Pages\/mwl4_2015.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" name=\"ftn3\"><\/a>[3] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustle.com\/articles\/83798-what-is-positive-train-control-a-railway-safety-feature-that-can-save-lives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bustle.com\/articles\/83798-what-is-positive-train-control-a-railway-safety-feature-that-can-save-lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" name=\"ftn4\"><\/a>[4] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/13\/us\/philadelphia-amtrak-crash-positive-train-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/13\/us\/philadelphia-amtrak-crash-positive-train-control\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" name=\"ftn5\"><\/a>[5] http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/technology\/safety-technology-might-have-prevented-deadly-amtrak-crash\/2015\/05\/14\/868faa1e-fa09-11e4-a47c-e56f4db884ed_story.html.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" name=\"ftn6\"><\/a>[6] http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/technology\/safety-technology-might-have-prevented-deadly-amtrak-crash\/2015\/05\/14\/868faa1e-fa09-11e4-a47c-e56f4db884ed_story.html.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" name=\"ftn7\"><\/a>[7] http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/safety-technology-prevented-deadly-amtrak-crash-31034910.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" name=\"ftn8\"><\/a>[8] http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/safety-technology-prevented-deadly-amtrak-crash-31034910.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" name=\"ftn9\"><\/a>[9] http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/technology\/safety-technology-might-have-prevented-deadly-amtrak-crash\/2015\/05\/14\/868faa1e-fa09-11e4-a47c-e56f4db884ed_story.html.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" name=\"ftn10\"><\/a>[10] http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/wireStory\/safety-technology-prevented-deadly-amtrak-crash-31034910.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A medida que la noticia del accidente mortal de Amtrak en Filadelfia resuena en todo el pa\u00eds, todav\u00eda hay m\u00e1s preguntas que respuestas sobre lo que pudo haber causado que el tren acelerara r\u00e1pidamente...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6 (Yoast SEO v27.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Deadly Philadelphia Amtrak Train Crash Likely Preventable with Use of Technology | Richmond, Fredericksburg, Charlottesville, and Petersburg | Allen, Allen, Allen &amp; Allen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Investigators are still trying to determine what contributed to this crash: human error, equipment malfunction, or other factors altogether. 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