Text messaging may have claimed the lives of 25 folks, while injuring 135, investigators say. Robert Sanchez, the driver of a Los Angeles Metrolink commuter train that crashed head-on with a freight locomotive, may have been text messaging seconds before the fatal crash, according to subpoenaed reports from Verizon Wireless. Records show the driver had received a text at 4:21.03 p.m. and sent a text at 4:22.01 p.m. The two trains crashed seconds later at 4:22.23 p.m.

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plus showed that during his day operating the train, the engineer received seven text messages and sent five. Earlier in the day, during a two-hour dawn shift, the engineer’s cell phone received 21 text messages and sent 24 text messages.

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