On September 12, 2008, at 4:22 p.m. in California’s San Fernando Valley, a Metrolink commuter train carrying 225 passengers hit a Union Pacific freight train head-on.
The crash, which became known as the Chatsworth crash, left 135 people injured and 25 people dead. One of the victims was 49-year-old Charles E. Peck, a Delta Air Lines customer service agent from Salt Lake City International Airport.
