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Operator in New York Derailment Tests Positive for Cocaine.

A post-accident drug test revealed that cocaine was involved in an incident in June that turned out to be New York City Transit's worst derailment in 10 years.

An eight-car train traveling south from the Dekalb venue station in Brooklyn derailed at about 10:00 p.m., June 21, when the wheels of the third car slipped from the tracks and hit a dividing wall.

The transit authority revealed that the operator tested positive for cocaine in a post-accident drug screening. He has been suspended and his termination is being sought, said New York City Transit spokesper

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