{"id":37093,"date":"2014-04-07T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T13:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smart-union.dev\/news\/train-engineer-in-fatal-derailment-has-sleep-apnea\/"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T13:08:03","slug":"train-engineer-in-fatal-derailment-has-sleep-apnea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-union.org\/train-engineer-in-fatal-derailment-has-sleep-apnea\/","title":{"rendered":"Train engineer in fatal derailment has sleep apnea","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
The National Transportation Safety Board will announce this week that the Metro-North Railroad engineer at the controls last year during a fatal derailment in the Bronx had an undiagnosed sleep disorder, according to a person with knowledge of the planned announcement.<\/p>\n
\u00a0The engineer, William Rockefeller, suffered from severe sleep apnea, which appeared to be aggravated by a recent change to an early-morning shift shortly before the crash, the person said of the safety board\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n
In the days after the derailment, which killed four people and injured more than 70, representatives for Mr. Rockefeller said he appeared to have nodded off as the train raced toward a sharp curve near the Spuyten Duyvil station around 7:20 a.m. on Dec. 1.<\/p>\n