The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has determined that the probable cause of a train accident that killed one person near Roswell, New Mexico in 2015 was human error, brought on by fatigue.
The April 28 early morning incident occurred when a westbound Southwestern Railroad (Southwestern) freight train with nine locomotives and 79 cars collided with Southwestern’s Roswell Local standing freight train. The striking train traveled through a switch that was in the reverse position at the east end of Chisum siding just south of Roswell, New Mexico.