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TOKYO (AP) - A government panel investigating Japan's worst train wreck in decades said Wednesday the driver may have failed to use the brakes in time because he was distracted by a radio conversation.
The report also suggested that pressure on drivers to conform to an overly precise train schedule may have contributed to the April 2006 accident.
A total of 107 people — 106 passengers and driver Ryujiro Takami — were killed when a speeding West Japan Railway Co. commuter train jumped off a curve in Amagasaki and slammed into an apartment building.
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