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911 calls in Disney monorail crash
9-1-1 in the News | Greg | July 7, 2009 at 9:27 am
A witness to the monorail accident that killed a train operator at Walt Disney World in Florida described it as “a head-on collision” between two trains in a 911 call released by authorities.
“A monorail was waiting to come into the station … or it did not leave the station, and the other one cleared through the station, and there was a head-on collision,” the male caller said.
The accident occurred as the park resort was closing early Sunday and one train was being transferred off the rail line, said Zoraya Suarez, a Disney spokeswoman. She declined to describe the circumstances of the crash further.
Austin Wuennenberg, 21, died of multiple traumatic injuries in what’s being considered an accident, said Sheri Blanton, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner’s office in Orlando.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration said Monday it will investigate whether workplace safety rules were broken before one monorail train crashed into another, said Mike D’Aquino, a spokesman in Atlanta for the federal agency. The investigation could take as long as six months.
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