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#51 CNJRoss

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Posted 02 January 2019 - 09:27 PM

The Jourmal-News, White Plains, NY 1/2/19:
 

Did Metro-North 'buy the silence' of engineer in deadly Valhalla crash? Attorneys think so

 

Metro-North settled a legal claim filed by the engineer operating the Harlem Line train that crashed into an SUV at a Valhalla grade crossing in 2015, a move that upset victims.

 

 

Metro-North quietly settled a legal claim made by the engineer who was operating the train that slammed into a car at a Valhalla grade crossing in 2015, killing six in the deadliest accident in Metro-North’s history, The Journal News/lohud has learned.

 

But Metro-North refuses to reveal details of the settlement with its former engineer, Steven Smalls, setting up a legal challenge that has attorneys for injured passengers and the families of those who died accusing the railroad of trying to sway Smalls’ testimony in pending litigation.

 

“Metro-North settled with him to buy his silence,” said Steven Dorfman, an attorney who represents the estate of Walter Liedtke, 69, a curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.

 

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Posted 05 September 2019 - 08:37 AM

NTSB news release

 

3 More Safety Recommendations Closed from NTSB’s 2019 – 2020 Most Wanted List
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Railroad safety was also recently advanced when the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Rail Road implemented NTSB safety recommendations R-17-009 and R-17-010, which were issued following the NTSBs investigation of the Feb. 3, 2015, grade crossing accident in Valhalla, New York, in which six people died and 10 were injured. The recommendations sought the risk assessment and subsequent risk mitigation for grade crossings with third-rail systems at or near the crossings. Because safety recommendation R-17-10 was issued to multiple recipients, the recommendation remains listed as open in the NTSB’s safety recommendation database. Neither recommendation appeared in the 2019 – 2020 Most Wanted List.
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Posted 12 February 2024 - 10:27 AM

News 12,  2/3/24:

 


 

  9 years later: Remembering the fatal Metro-North crash at Valhalla rail crossing      

 

 

Saturday marked nine years since the fatal crash between a Metro-North train and an SUV at a railroad crossing in Valhalla.

 

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