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<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">How are you going to prove that the bridge did not fail first and cause the derailment?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">While a derailing train can derail first and then knock down a bridge as a consequence, I don’t see how they prove that in this case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pileup is right on the bridge site with the bridge totally destroyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size: small;">The only way they are going to show that the derailment happened first is to find damage to the track far enough ahead of the bridge, and to show that damage as being the first car to derail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I doubt they have such evidence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p> </span></span></p> <p> </p>
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