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By Bob Kendall
07/17/2008 03:41:44 AM EST

Friday, June 27 the New York Times headlined an article of a jury convicting a motorist of causing a train crash.

Jennifer Steinhauser in a story datelined from Los Angeles wrote the following:

"The man who caused a catastrophic train crash that killed 11 people and injured scores of others was convicted on 11 counts of first degree murder and may face the death penalty.  

"The defendant, Juan M. Alvarez, a 29-year-old laborer, had intended to commit suicide early on January 26, 2005, when he drove his Jeep Cherokee onto the track of a heavily traveled commuter railroad line near downtown Glendale, but abandoned the plan at the last minute and simply failed to get the vehicle off the track.

"After running from the Jeep, which prosecutors said he had doused with gasoline, Mr. Alvarez looked on as a southbound Metrolink commuter train rammed the vehicle, derailed and then hit a parked freight train before colliding in a final conflagration with a northbound train.  About 180 people were injured in the accident, one of the nation's deadliest rail crashes."

Alvarez's defense lawyer claims he got upset that day as he was emotionally rattled because he felt his wife was having an affair with another man.  


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