this is not going to end well for Brandon the Engineer and nor should it. The dude either has narcolepsy or he was on drugs.
He remembers driving the train, Goggin said, but "has absolutely no recollection of the incident or anything unusual."
That's his only defense at this point. A medical condition caused it...
Sucks for him that he applied the brakes going into the curve because that is what is going to fook him