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Public needs answers, accountability for deadly MBTA train collision, drawbridge incident
3 monthes ago | By Boston Herald
A Wilmington woman is killed in a horrific train crash at an MBTA signal crossing.
A Mass DOT drawbridge suddenly rises with a truck stuck on it.
If these acts of deadly incompetence don't shake your confidence in the state transportation system, then nothing will.
Yet the public has heard nothing from the state's chief executive and transportation secretary about these unforgivable incidents.
No higher ups have been called to the carpet, except the low level employees responsible for them.
Robbi Sausville Devine, 68, died after her vehicle was struck by an MBTA commuter rail train in...
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