NTSB
Railroad Accident Report
While the prospective memory training described in the findings may have helped avoid errors due to memory failure, this engineer still may have lost situational awareness, but PTC would have prevented this accident entirely. This focus on PTC in the probable cause is not about casting blame, but rather, it is about prevention and how we, as an agency, can make the greatest difference in public safety and public policy. The lack of PTC should have been included in the primary probable cause of this accident.
