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Trolley Driver was Text Messaging Before Boston Crash

Forty-nine passengers were inured when two Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line trolleys collided near Boston’s Government Center station.  The accident occurred after one of the drivers did not stop because he was text messaging.

According to spokesman Joe Pesaturo, the 24-year-old trolley driver admitted to text messaging his girlfriend just before the crash at 7:18 PM on Friday, May 8, 2009.  Pesaturo said that none of the passengers’ injuries were life-threatening.

The crash took place when a trolley rear-ended the one traveling ahead of it, which had stopped at a red light west of the Government Center platform.

The transit agency has a “zero tolerance” policy for its trolley and subway train operators, as well as its bus drivers, when it comes to using cell phones or text pagers while on duty.  Pesaturo said that a number of transit employees have already been disciplined for violating that policy and there have been some terminations.

Daniel Grabauskas, the authority’s general manager, has indicated that he expects to see termination papers on his desk this week.

This Boston trolley accident is not the first crash to be caused by text messaging.  Last September, a Metrolink passenger train and a Union Pacific Corp. freight train collided in Los Angeles after the Metrolink driver was sending text messages.  Twenty-five people were killed in that accident.

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