On Saturday, the NTSB was headed back to Boston for yet another Green Line crash, its third investigation on the subway line since 2008 and the safety system it recommended 13 years ago remains a work in progress.
“It’s completely inexcusable,” according to Millhouse, for any US rail system to not have safety technology to prevent train-to-train collisions.
The collision shared similarities with the fatal crash in Newton that claimed the life of Ter’rese Edmonds, 24, on May 28, 2008, after she went through a stop signal at 38 miles per hour and crashed into a train that was stopped in front of her.
In that case, the NTSB faulted the train operator, Aiden Quinn, saying he was texting at the time of the crash, but also noted that the Green Line still lacked the safety system.
The technology is already in place on the Red, Blue, and Orange lines, Pesaturo said.