Details of the incident

The unnamed boy faces two charges. His actions caused serious damage to the railway tracks and approximately $350,000Fortunately, there were no casualties.

A BNSF railroad locomotive crashed in Bennett, Nebraska, on April 21 due to an incorrectly installed switch. In the video released later, you can see how the train was initially directed onto the wrong track, and then a cloud of dust appeared in front of it, the moment when the first car derailed and hit the ground. Then the other cars started shaking and coming down from behind, five in total. For a while longer, the locomotive continued to move along the ground by inertia until it hit a stationary car full of coal that was on a track where the train was not supposed to go.

In the video, you can hear the author of the video exclaiming in surprise, “Oh my God! Oh my God! Are they okay?”, but it was all just acting and he was just pretending to be surprised.

BNSF Railway said the teen reported the derailment to authorities and then asked a crime scene investigator what caused the accident. When told the cause was still unknown, he said, “It looks like the switch was turned the wrong way.” He later allegedly admitted it, according to court records. Knows a little bit about how turn signals workInvestigators believe it was tampered with to cause the crash.

A video of the incident was later published on the Internet. implied that the suspect was waiting in the right place at the right time. In addition, when law enforcement arrived at the scene of the accident, they found a tripod that had been set up just four minutes before the train arrived, as seen on camera.

Police seized the teen’s cell phone and BNSF railroad surveillance footage. Now the teen is charged with disorderly conduct; $5,000 fineBut prosecutors are requesting that the case be transferred to adult court, which could carry much harsher penalties.