Metra has announced plans to install a high-tech system costing approximately $100 million in order to prevent accidents such as the one that occurred in Rock Island in 2005.
The system is designed to prevent an engineer from speeding through warning signals by alerting them to slow down as well as to prevent approaching trains from colliding.
In the Rock Island crash, two people were killed and 117 injured after an engineer's error, an investigation by the National Transportation and Safety Board concluded.
The NTSB said such a system would also have prevented the deadly 2008 Los Angeles train accident where 25 people died when two commuter trains collided. The investigation concluded the accident occurred when the engineer ran a red light because he was text messaging.
After the Los Angeles crash, Congress passed a bill requiring large railways to install a positive train control or PTC by 2015. The systems employ various technologies that would help warn engineers and help keep similar crashes from occurring.
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