Trucker in Amtrak Crash Guilty of Logbook Violations; Driver Is Convicted of Violating Driving Time Limits in a Case Related to the 1999 Derailment

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KANKAKEE (AP) - The truck driver involved in a deadly 1999 Amtrak derailment near Bourbonnais was convicted Wednesday of violating driving time limits and logbook rules - the only criminal charges he faced in the crash that killed 11 people.

The crash also injured 122 others aboard Amtrak's "City of New Orleans" and pushed federal officials to overhaul truckers' hours- of-service rules for the first time since 1939.

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Trucker in Amtrak Crash Guilty of Logbook Violations; Driver Is Convicted of Violating Driving Time Limits in a Case Related to the 1999 Derailment

John R. Stokes, 63, was driving a truck loaded with steel the night of March 15, 1999 when the train hit...

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