Horror as dad’s phone makes 35 calls to family after train crash killed him | US | News
Charles Peck died as a result of impact (Image: findagrave.com)
In a heartbreaking and confusing hour, a father-of-three tried to contact his loved ones following his tragic death in a railway disaster.
Charles E Peck was among the victims of the disastrous San Fernando Valley Metrolink incident known as the Chatsworth crash.
Peck was recently engaged to Andrea Katz, and the 49-year-old had three children from a previous marriage.
According to Snopes, on September 12, 2008, at 4:22 p.m., a passenger train carrying 225 people collided with a freight train operated by a crew of three at a combined speed of 83 mph.
Tragically, 135 people were injured, of whom 87 were hospitalized and 46 were in critical condition. 25 people died in a terrible way Mirror USA.
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Crash was deadliest in Metrolink history (Image: AFP)
Peck, a customer service representative for Delta Air Lines at Salt Lake City International Airport, died as a result of the crash. But the cell phone told an eerily different story.
The 49-year-old man had traveled to Los Angeles for a job interview at Van Nuys Airport; He was looking for a new job in California so he could marry his fiancee in Westlake Village.
Horrifyingly, Katz heard the accident on the radio while traveling to pick up Peck from the station. He was accompanied by his parents and siblings.
Unfortunately, their loved ones began receiving phone calls from Peck. For 11 hours, they were bombarded with agonizing calls from his phone to his son, brother, stepmother, sister and fiancée.
A total of 35 calls were made from the phone throughout the night and his family were unsure whether he was dead or alive. The phone calls gave hope to his distraught loved ones that he was still alive and had been trapped.
The train could not stop at the red signal (Image: AFP/Getty Images)
When they answered the mysterious calls, all they heard was static, and when they tried to call back, the calls went straight to voicemail.
Peck’s body was eventually pulled from the wreckage 12 hours after the crash.
The flurry of searches caused search teams to trace the phone’s whereabouts via signal and once again scour what was left of the first train, the place where the calls had come from.
Searchers finally found Peck’s body about an hour after calls on his cell phone stopped.
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It turned out that Peck died as a result of the crash, and his phone continued to work after his death, reaching his favorite people.
Ultimately, these searches also led to the discovery of his body, but his phone was never found.
A preliminary investigation into the deadliest crash in Metrolink history has found that the driver operating the commuter train failed to recognize the red signal.
This meant that the train entered a single track with a Union Pacific freight train that was cleared to continue.
