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It’s been nearly three weeks since a Metro-North Railroad train barreling 58 mph through Westchester County slammed into an SUV that unexpectedly appeared on the tracks. The driver, Ellen Brody, a married mother of three girls, was killed instantly. Five commuters riding in the first car of the express train also were killed.

“The big question everybody wants to know is: Why was this vehicle in the crossover?” National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said the day after the Feb. 3 crash, as federal investigators began examining the scorched wreckage.

Nearly three weeks later, the central question remains. It may never be fully answered. But the unusual design of the gearshift may ultimately emerge as a contributing factor in the tragedy that caused so much pain in several small towns north of the city.

 



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