ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — New legal documents show the mother of the young man killed while driving a Walt Disney World monorail thinks the theme park could have prevented her son's death.
Austin Wuennenberg was killed when the train he was piloting collided with another train on the same track in July of 2009.
Wuennenberg's mother filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Disney World after the crash.
In her civil lawsuit, Wuennenberg's mother says if a monorail manager wasn't eating at a Perkins restaurant the night of the crash, the death could have been avoided. Christine Wuennenberg says monorail manager David Gilmore chose to run the trains via radio while he was having a meal break.
Wuennenberg's mother, along with the other train pilot who survived the crash, say no one knew the manager was off the property. She says everyone "had a right to know that the monorail manager was at the restaurant, issuing commands."
Alan Rubino testified he and Wuennenberg were both "flying blind" as they were told to disable an anti-collision system.
Wuennenberg's mother says "the monorail manager flippantly continued eating his Perkins meal with his fellow Disney employees while blindly issuing radio commands to the monorail drivers."
Wuennenberg's mother is also upset that Disney never punished Gilmore.
Disney responded to WFTV late Wednesday night, saying, "We will respond when appropriate through the court."
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