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KTLA NewsSeptember 17, 2008SIMI VALLEY -- One local

family whose loved one died in the Metrolink collision is still

questioning something that happened that night. They got several phone calls from 49-year-old Chuck Peck after the crash. But they now know he died on impact.Peck's fiancee, Katz, told KTLA that the first call was to his son in Utah.

" ...and

he said my dad just called me and I said, what did he say? Is he okay?

Where is he? He didn't say anything, the phone rang and it said dad, "

Peck's fiance Katz told KTLA.As firefighters worked to

rescue survivors, family members said Peck's cell phone kept calling

his son, his brother, his stepmother, his sister and his fiancee. But when they answered all they heard was static.And when family members called back, the calls went straight to voice mail. In all, family members say they received about 35 calls from Peck's cell phone through the night.

Nearly five hours after the crash at 9:08 p.m., Katz received a call. " We were yelling in the phone, hang in there baby. We're gonna get you out. You're gonna be okay, " Katz said.When

the rescue efforts turned to recovery, there was another call, which

prompted search crews to trace it. They realized it was coming from

the first train so they went back in one last time. " And they

were so excited they had this incredible adrenaline rush at thought

that they could possibly go find another survivor... we gave her a

description and they spent the next couple of hours looking for him and

they did end up finding him and they said that he had died immediately

on impact and there was no way he could have been calling us, " Katz

said.The calls stopped at 3:28 a.m., about an hour before Peck's body was found.Katz said the phone calls helped the family get through the night. " The

intellectual side of my brain thinks gee, it was a computer malfunction

and then the emotional side of my brain, it was just Chuck letting us

know that he knew that we were scared for him and letting us have hope. " Katz said she also finds comfort in knowing she and Peck were happy and that he didn't suffer in the end. " He

died instantly and he didn't suffer and when you love somebody you

couldn't ask for a better way for them to leave this life, just happy

and excited and didn't see it coming. " Investigators said they may never know how those calls were made because Peck's phone was never found.They also say his body showed no sign that he lived even for a short time after the crash.

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