in washington, d.c., several collisions between cars and trolleys. and in 2012, a streetcar hit a car in philadelphia, killing the car s driver. in the charlotte crash, three people suffered minor injuries. the transit agency says it appears operator error was to blame. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. the driver was a 26-year veteran, apparently. oh, wow. yeah. so, it s not like some young kid who didn t know. apparently, he forgot a switch on a critical button when something went wrong. you know, accidents do happen. thank goodness this one worked out okay. all right, well, how about the mix ? coming up in our next half hour, crashes that you can help prevent. dangerous and potentially deadly moments on the nation s highway. what you need to know to stay safe if your car breaks down. but first, all right, getting to this story now. my lord. look at this. oh, my lord.
on gasoline and to cut emissions. in washington, d.c., several collisions between cars and trolleys. and in 2012 a streetcar hit a car in philadelphia, killing the car s driver. in the charlotte crash, three people suffered minor injuries. the transit agency says it appears operator error was to blame. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. the driver was a 26-year veteran, apparently. oh, wow. yeah. so it s not like some young kid who didn t know. apparently he forgot a switch on a critical button when something went wrong. you know, accidents do happen. thank goodness this one worked out okay. all right, well how about the mix? coming up in our next half hour crashes that you can help prevent. dangerous and potentially deadly moments on the nation s highway. what you need to know to stay safe if your car breaks down. but first, all right getting to this story now. my lord. look at this. oh, my gordon.
outside to review the results of previous pipeline inspections. but as of tonight, it is still a mystery as to what caused the pipeline leak in the first place. local papers have been digging into the safety report of plains all american looking for clues. the l.a. times reporting that since 2006, the pipeline company has received 175 safety and maintenance infractions, including pump failure, equipment malfunction, pipeline corrosion and operator error. the company has had to pay over $23 million in property damage over the last nine years. last week, the head of the santa barbara county energy division said that he was curious as to why the pipeline leak didn t trigger an automatic shutoff of the pipeline. the system that isequired for
that owns that pipeline that not only does the pipeline need to be drained immediately, they also need to physically send the ruptured section of the people pipe out for testing and conduct what sa called a root analysis of the spill and involve a third party outside to review the ults results of previous pipeline inspections. but as of tonight, it is still a mystery as to what caused the pipeline leak in the first place. local papers have been digging into the safety report of plains all american looking for clues. the l.a. times reporting that since 2006 the pipeline company has received 175 safety and maintenance infractions, including pump failure, equipment malfunction, pipeline corrosion and operator error. the company has had to pay over $23 million in property damage over the last nine years. last week the head of the santa barbara county energy division said that he was curious as to why the pipeline leak didn t trigger an automatic shutoff of the pipeline.
have the mark on the windshield of the amtrak train, so we certainly want to trace that lead down. do you know what made that mark? tomorrow the fbi will be on scene to assist us to identify what that may have been. at this point, you got results from the back box. there are two sources of information, the forward-facing video camera and the event reporter, and we obtained data from each of those. when you look at the locomotive powering this train, and we are talking about a train increasing tens of miles per hour in the course of the final minute. what would it have entailed for the train to do that? would this have been operator error, or would it have been something that would have taken a lot of purposeful action. it seems looking at other