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    1. Safety & Security

    MA: T Unaware of Driver's Troubles

    Feb. 14, 2018
    An MBTA trolley driver now facing criminal charges after crashing a Mattapan trolley into another train late last year has an eight-page driving record, with multiple license suspensions while he worked at the T,

    Source Boston Herald Radio

    An MBTA trolley driver now facing criminal charges after crashing a Mattapan trolley into another train late last year has an eight-page driving record, with multiple license suspensions while he worked at the T — violations the agency said it wasn’t aware of at the time.

    Leroy Mattison, 41, is due to be arraigned today in Dorchester District Court in connection with the Dec. 29 crash that injured 17 people, after transit police said he was using his cellphone to delete a Reddit.com post when he accidentally rammed another stopped trolley. He also had a loaded gun in his backpack on the train.

    Read the complete article at http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2018/02/t_unaware_of_drivers_troubles