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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A lawyer filing suit over a fatal Amtrak crash near Philadelphia blames a “colossal miscommunication” for the deaths of two rail workers struck by a train traveling at 106 mph.
Lawyers filed a negligence lawsuit Thursday on behalf of the family of one victim, 61-year-old Joe Neal Carter Jr. of Wilmington, Delaware.
The lawyers say Carter was operating a backhoe on a Sunday overtime shift when the Amtrak passenger train struck him.
The precise cause of the April 3 crash remains under investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
But lawyer Robert Mongeluzzi says he hopes to determine how “a colossal miscommunication … killed two men.”
The other worker killed was Carter’s supervisor, 59-year-old Peter Adamovich, of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania.