Amtrak engineer cleared of 2015 Philadelphia derailment that killed 8
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An Amtrak engineer charged with hundreds of counts related to a 2015 train derailment in Philadelphia in which eight people were killed and hundreds more were injured was acquitted Friday.
Brandon Bostian, the Amtrak engineer involved in a 2015 derailment in Philadelphia that killed eight people and injured more than 200, walks from the criminal justice center in Philadelphia on Friday. A jury acquitted 38-year-old of causing a catastrophe, involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment after a little more than an hour of deliberations. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) Brandon Bostian reacts as his attorney speaks with members of the media outside the criminal justice center in Philadelphia. (AP)
Bostian was at the controls of the New York-bound train traveling at 106 mph when it rounded a curve in north Philadelphia before it derailed.