NOT GUILTY: A Philadelphia jury has found Brandon Bostian not guilty on all counts related to the deadly 2015 Amtrak crash that killed 8 people and injured more than 200 others.
A Philadelphia jury found Brandon Bostian not guilty on all counts for the fatal 2015 Amtrak derailment that left eight dead and more than 200 injured. FOX 29's Jeff Cole has the details.A Philadelphia jury has reached a verdict in the deadly 2015 Amtrak derailment case, finding the engineer not guilty on all counts.as they weighed criminal charges against engineer Brandon Bostian.
Soon after the incident, Amtrak agreed to pay $265 million in civil settlements to victims and their families, but the criminal case has been an uphill battle. sped up intentionally, knowing the risks — the threshold required for criminal negligence. Yet instead of braking for the second curve, he kept accelerating, going from 65 miles per hour up to 70, 80, 90 and finally 106 miles per hour, when the train derailed into a tangle of cars. The speed limit there was 50 miles per hour.A Philadelphia judge will let a jury weigh criminal charges against Brandon Bostian, the Amtrak engineer charged in the 2015 derailment that left eight people dead and more than 200 injured.
Bostian later told federal investigators he was concerned for the other engineer's safety because a friend had lost an eye from a similar rock-throwing episode that shattered a windshield. The attorney general, in his closing arguments, recalled the testimony of a woman who asked to borrow Bostian's phone after the crash. She had no idea he'd been driving. As she told her father what happened, she asked Bostian where they were. He said, accurately, they were at "Franklin Junction," according to Phillips.
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