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Engineer Who Ran Train Off Tracks Toward Navy Ship Gets Three Years in Prison
The USNS Mercy hospital ship at the Port of Los Angeles in 2020.
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Prison will be the next stop for a train engineer who intentionally ran a locomotive off the tracks at full-speed toward a U.S. Navy hospital ship at the Port of Los Angeles.
The Mercy, a ship that was deployed to provide medical relief during the early months of the Covid pandemic, wasn’t damaged by the train’s derailment in 2020, nor was anyone injured, according to a Justice Department statement. But the crash caused a diesel fuel leak of about 2,000 gallons.