More questions for Bronx train driver
Jan 22
Wednesday, Mar 16th 2011, 4:00 AM
The ex-con driver in a Bronx train pile-up that killed 15 people was grilled for 3 hours yesterday by investigators as one family prepared a lawsuit.
“I am both indignant and sad. My cousin was a really good man,” pronounced Shong Wang, 53, whose cousin Jian Hua Wang, a grill deliveryman and father of two, died in Saturday’s accident.
“I wish probity for my cousin,” pronounced Wang, whose family hired counsel David Sobiloff to sue a World Wide Travel train line.
Driver Ophadell Williams, 40, was questioned by a National Transportation Safety Board and state police.
Investigators were anticipating to learn what he ate, drank and how most nap he got in a 72 hours before Saturday’s horrific pile-up on I-95.
Williams told cops he mislaid control of a train when it was sideswiped by a truck. Survivors pronounced he was dozing moments before a World Wide Travel manager sloping over and skidded into a turnpike sign.
Williams has served jail stints for a deadly stabbing and check forgery. His driver’s permit was dangling for speeding tickets dating to 1995.
In 2004, he practical for a state permit to be a confidence ensure though was denied since he acted an “unreasonable risk,” sources said.
“Since 9/11, this is one of a biggest tragedies that happened to a Chinese community,” pronounced Williams Pui Wing Mak of a Ng Fook Funeral Home, that was arranging services for 5 victims.