CRail wrote:Given the facts of the incident, I'd be more concerned if distraction was ruled out as it would indicate either some sort of medical episode or malice, or some catastrophic equipment failure which would bring into question the safety of operating any of that fleet anymore.
Guess You didn't read the Globe article where Transit Police said he was on the phone or transit police saying he gave his bag to someone to bring to the office with the offending phone in it.
2 Quotes from the Globe: "The search showed phone activity on the Reddit website at 3:10 p.m., around the same time as the crash." and "The operator of the train that had been trying to push the disabled trolley heard a distraught Mattison say after the crash, “I didn’t see him, I didn’t know he was there” and “I’m screwed,” the affidavit said."
Sure sounds like distraction to me.