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33. unfortunately for the community the saftey system hadn't yet been installed on that stretch of rail.

As the Government Accountability Office (GAO) noted in a December 2013 report, a new safety system called “positive train control” (PTC) was supposed to be implemented by the end of 2015 precisely to prevent accidents caused by human factors. This system and its accompanying 2015 deadline were mandated under the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008, which was passed in response to several fatal rail accidents between 2002 and 2008. PTC is a “groundbreaking” wireless communications system comprised of “integrated technologies capable of preventing collisions, over-speed derailments and unintended train movements.” However, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), charged with overseeing PTC’s development and roll-out, had not implemented it on that stretch of rail, as Matthew Yglesias of Vox first noted.

“Based on what we know right now, we feel that had such a system been installed in this section of track, this accident would not have occurred,” Robert Sumwalt, a board member of the National Transportation Safety Board, told Reuters.

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