(Bloomberg) – Five months ago, in a scathing report on a 2016 accident in which two track workers were killed, U.S. safety investigators urged Amtrak to slow its trains when they pass work crews.
The nation's passenger rail service didn't follow the advice and still hasn't replied to the safety recommendations the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced in November, according to government records and details released from investigators.
|Amtrak worker hit & killed last week
Last week, another Amtrak worker was hit and killed in a similar accident in Bowie, Maryland. The victim was an Amtrak watchman who was helping monitor safety during track work between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., when struck April 24 by Train 86.
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