NY train wreck engineer suspended without pay

12/5/2013
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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    Passengers exit a Hudson Line Metro-North train at New York's Grand Central Terminal as service resumed, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013. Service on Metro-North's Hudson Line had been shut down after a fatal New York City derailment on Sunday, Dec. 1. Officials expect 98 percent of service to be restored to the affected line Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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    • NEW YORK  — The engineer driving the commuter train that went off the rails in New York City last weekend has been suspended without pay.

    A spokesman for Metro-North Railroad said today that William Rockefeller is “out of service, and not being paid.”

    According to his lawyer and union representative, Rockefeller experienced a momentary loss of awareness as he zoomed down the tracks.

    Four people were killed and more than 60 others injured when the train derailed inches from the river in the Bronx early Sunday.