<div id="subtitle">Contractor to remove top 2 managers who oversaw engineer involved in deadly LA train crash</div><div><p>The contractor that provided the engineer involved in last year's deadly train collision in Los Angeles says it will comply with a request to remove its two top managers.</p><p>Connex Railroad made the announcement Thursday after commuter rail service Metrolink asked the company to find a new general manager and assistant general manager.</p><p>Metrolink says its request was prompted by federal findings that Connex engineer Robert Sanchez had allowed unauthorized rides in Metrolink locomotive cabs and used his cell phone just before the crash.</p><p>Sanchez was among the 25 people killed when a Metrolink passenger train failed to heed a red traffic signal and collided with a Union Pacific freight train on a shared track in September.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=44271436&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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