Federal regulators have ordered new safety measures for Amtrak trains after Tuesday’s deadly derailment and installed new speed controls on the section of the track where the crash occurred.
CNN noted that over the weekend Amtrak installed the Automatic Train Control system in Philadelphia near the Frankford Junction where the passenger train derailed.
This is just one of the new regulations that officials at the Federal Railroad Administration have ordered and more measures to be put in place should be announced over the next days.
As previously reported, eight people were killed and 200 others were injured in the derailment. The data recorder was recovered in the wreck and revealed that at the time of the crash the train was going over 100 mph, more than double the speed limit.
The National Transportation Safety board has been investigating the crash and is looking into claims by one of the conductors that an object may have actually struck the train before it derailed.
Robert Goggin, the attorney for the train’s engineer Brandon Bostian, said that his client does not remember the crash happening and was hospitalized after suffering a concussion and leg injuries.
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