HALIFAX, N.S. — Passengers injured in a massive train wreck last year confronted the boy who caused the derailment, telling him in an emotional meeting yesterday how the violent crash permanently altered their lives, reports a wire service.
A group from the Via Rail train that hurtled off the track in Stewiacke, N.S., sat down with the 15-year-old to find out why he removed a lock on a train switch and sent several cars plowing into a feed store in April, 2001, injuring 23.