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Felix Lam/for New York Daily News Rescue workers help passengers who had been on the Metro-North train when it derailed near the Spuyten Duyvil station in the Bronx. Sleep apnea may have caused the locomotive engineer in the deadly Metro-North crash to zone out just before the train tumbled off the tracks. William Rockefeller is expected to undergo an evaluation ...

ERIC THAYER/REUTERS Metro-North engineer William Rockefeller Jr. is loaded into an ambulance after the train’s derailment in the Bronx. Rockefeller was described by an investigator as ‘consciously asleep’ during the incident. The engineer at the helm during Sunday’s deadly Metro-North crash has been described by investigators as “consciously asleep” leading up to the incident. “I was in a daze,” William ...