As John Davis Trucking Co. tractor-trailer ran toward the intersection of the railroad East of Reno in June, the engineer of an Amtrak passenger train blew his horn four times to warn the driver of the approaching train cars, according to federal investigators.
The National Transportation Safety Board officials returned to Nevada in the last few weeks and used a tractor-trailer with identical vehicles fell to re-enact the incident which caused the accident in the US 95 on June 24, to determine if a driver can hear the train when approaching a junction of the Eastern railway from Reno.
"As for the results of tests on the Horn, after the findings were reviewed and approved, they will be included in the factual report to be released in its entirety when the docket accident opened, which will likely be sometime in mid-2012," NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson wrote in an email.
Around 200 people onboard Amtrak trains as it headed west to California when the driver Lawrence Valli broke through a railway crossing guard rail and into a train, killing Valli and the four onboard.
The NTSB investigated the accident immediately began to determine the cause and may make recommendations so that a crash similar to be avoided in the future.