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Key Issue: Fair Compensation for Metrolink Victims: Documents

Pictured are 15-year-old Mackenzie Souser of Camarillo and her mother, Claudia, at a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Subcommittee on Rail, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials, hearing on March 17, 2011. Mackenzie and Rep. Gallegly testified before the subcommittee on the impacts of a cap on damages in passenger train accidents. Mackenzie's dad was among the 25 passengers killed when a texting Metrolink engineer ran a red signal and crashed into an oncoming freight train.

Below are links to my legislation to increase the cap on passenger rail accidents, the NTSB report on the September, 12, 2008, Metrolink crash, and other documents outlining how 25 people died and 135 people were severely injured because Veolia’s engineer was texting instead of driving the train and Veolia’s culpability.

Don’t hesitate to contact my office with any questions.

[Gallegly’s Metrolink Bill] [NTSB Report] [Gallegly’s & Mackenzie Souser’s Committee Statements] [Engineer’s Texting History] [Veolia Transportation Inc. Letter]

Gallegly’s Metrolink Bill

• H.R.304: To amend the limitation on liability for certain passenger rail accidents or incidents under section 28103 of title 49, United States Code, and for other purposes.

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NTSB Report

• National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB): Collision of Metrolink Train 111 With Union Pacific Train LOF65-12, Chatsworth, California, September 12, 2008

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Statements/Depositions

• Statement of Rep. Elton Gallegly, Subcommittee on Rail, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials, Metrolink tragedy, March 17, 2011

• Statement of Mackenzie Souser, Subcommittee on Rail, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials, Metrolink tragedy, March 17, 2011

• Deposition of Richard Dahl, Veolia transportation manager, February 24, 2010

• NTSB interview of Chris Leo, Connex Railroad conductor, January 21, 2009

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Engineer’s Texting History

• Chart showing engineer’s texting history in the eight days prior and on the day of the September 12, 2008, crash

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Response to Veolia’s inaccurate and false assertions

• Gallegly letter to Chairmen Mica and Shuster

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[Documents: Gallegly’s Bill; Gallegly’s Statement; NTSB Report; Engineer’s texting history]
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