Trolley crash prompts ban on phones
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BOSTON — The head of the Boston-area transit authority said Saturday that he would ban all train and bus operators from even carrying cellphones on board after a trolley driver told police that he was texting his girlfriend before a collision Friday.
About 50 people were hurt in the underground crash in downtown Boston, though none of the injuries was life-threatening.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bans operators from using cellphones and recently ran an internal ad campaign featuring a poster of an open cellphone that warned employees not to drive “under the influence.”
But the agency’s general manager, Daniel Grabauskas, said Saturday that the temptation was too great for some.
“I want to remove any temptation by one or two people stupid enough to think a moment of convenience is worth the lives of the people they’re transporting,” he said.
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