Submission statement: Some days ago, I submitted a similar article to this sub. I decided to submit this new article, because it contains updated information.:
>In a statement, Norfolk Southern pushed back on the claim that the derailed train was immediately put back into service.
“Immediately following the derailment, the locomotives and uninvolved leading cars were moved from the derailment site to one of our facilities,” the company wrote. “This movement did not overwrite the videos. The locomotives were held there for NTSB inspection. Following release by the NTSB days later, the locomotives were returned to normal service. Because these cameras run continuously, information not collected prior to release was overwritten in the normal course of activity.”
PS: 15 minutes before and 5 minutes after the derailment is still available.
>The footage was “overwritten after the accident because they put the locomotive immediately back in service,”
Is this lawful? I think that this is a twofold scandal.: The rest of the footage is no longer available. The locomotive supposedly wasn‘t inspected by the NTSB.
PS: According to the article, “The camera inside the train car had 12 hours of recording space, all of which was used except for a 15-minute time span before and five minutes after the derailment.“
EDIT: According to another article, which was published subsequently, Norfolk Southern wrote a statement to push back on the claim that the derailed train was immediately put back into service. Source: globalnews
newsspotter OP t1_jec2bov wrote
Reply to Hours of Ohio train derailment footage lost after being ‘overwritten’ by newsspotter
Submission statement: Some days ago, I submitted a similar article to this sub. I decided to submit this new article, because it contains updated information.:
>In a statement, Norfolk Southern pushed back on the claim that the derailed train was immediately put back into service.
“Immediately following the derailment, the locomotives and uninvolved leading cars were moved from the derailment site to one of our facilities,” the company wrote. “This movement did not overwrite the videos. The locomotives were held there for NTSB inspection. Following release by the NTSB days later, the locomotives were returned to normal service. Because these cameras run continuously, information not collected prior to release was overwritten in the normal course of activity.”
PS: 15 minutes before and 5 minutes after the derailment is still available.