Right after the Glendale Metrolink 100 crash, Steve Lopez, a columnist with the Los Angeles Times, wrote an article about how a fateful day can alter the lives of ordinary people and launch them into the spotlight. In that article, he interviews a man who credits a blond guardian angel who raced up the stairs to the upper level with saving his life. Cox followed him, only to find after the crash that the seat he had occupied was completely gone, the train crumpled in on itself. It also tells the story of other survivors.
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Bruce Gray, the engineer of Metrolink 100, left the operating compartment of his train after seeing the car on the tracks and applying the emergency break, turned and ran up the stairs, yeling to people to hold on. His friends and family thought perhaps he might be that guardian angel. so he called Lopez, and Lopez interviewed him for another article about the crash where he relives the moment of impact with the freight train locomotive.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
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