Criminal charges have been dropped against Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway (MMA), according to Quebec’s Director of Criminal and Penal Prosecutions (DPCP), for causing the deaths of 47 people when 73 cars of highly combustible crude oilderailed in the small Quebec town of Lac-Mégantic in 2013 turning the downtown into a raging inferno.
For those of you who may not have been following this story, MMA locomotive engineer Tom Harding, 56, rail traffic controller Richard Labrie, 59, and operations manager Jean Demaître, 53, were tried on 47 counts of criminal negligence causing death — one count for each of the victims of the rail disaster.