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US Officials to Examine New Jersey Train's Event Recorder

by VOA News

   U.S. officials are preparing to study the event recorder from the train
   which smashed through a Hoboken, New Jersey station at the height of
   Thursday's morning rush hour. One person died and more than 100 others
   were injured.

   The event recorder tracks data from the train rather like an airliner's
   black box flight recorder. National Transport Safety Board officials
   say they're hoping it'll help pinpoint what went wrong.

   "We are going to be pulling that event recorder from the locomotive,
   which - It is safe to do that at this point - so once we pull that,
   we'll have more information about the speed and braking and other
   issues," T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, Vice Chairwoman ot the National Transport
   Safety Board told reporters.

   Officials say the train driver, who was among the injured, has been
   released from the hospital and is cooperating with investigators.