The Chatsworth crash | Image: MR O Via Wikimedia Commons
A terrible train wreck occurred on September 12, 2008 in California's San Fernando Valley. A Metrolink commuter train carrying 225 riders collided with a Union Pacific freight train. In what is now referred to as the Chatsworth crash, 135 people were injured. Of those injured, 87 people were hospitalized and 25 died. It was determined that the engineer of the Metrolink train was texting at the time of the crash, and that train was considered to be at fault in the tragic accident.
One of the fatalities on the Metrolink train was 49-year-old Charles Peck, a Delta Airlines customer service representative from Salt Lake City. Peck had been in Los Angeles to interview for a job at Van Nuys airport. He and his fiancé Andrea Katz had put off marriage until Peck could relocate to the Los Angeles area, where Katz lived. It would be Charles Peck's second marriage. His first marriage had produced three children.
News of the deadly crash spread as Andrea Katz made her way to the train station to pick up her fiancé. When Peck's parents and siblings heard of the accident, they joined Katz for what was to be a most harrowing experience.
Peck died on impact. Yet his body wasn't found for another dozen hours after the crash. During those hours, Peck's mobile phone made a series of calls to his fiancé and many family members. Thirty-five calls in all were made from Peck's phone to members of his family and inner circle, all of which consisted of a few minutes of silence before disconnection. As the calls continued, authorities used Peck's cell signal in order to locate his body, which they eventually did, one hour after the last call. Peck's phone was never found.
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