NTSB: Engineer sent text seconds before crash

Seeded on Wed Oct 1, 2008 4:20 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

A Metrolink engineer was text-messaging 22 seconds before the commuter train collided head-on with a freight train, the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday.

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