Passengers on board and eight crew members. This was route that ran between new york and miami. Lets bring in now derek becker, the Public Information officer for South Carolina Emergency Management. Derrick, good morning to you. And what can you tell us about what youve learned about what caused this crash and, of course, the injuries and fatality . We would not the agency to determine the cause and that would be the transportation investigators with the federal government. Right now, what i can tell su that tell you is that state Emergency Management are responding. The incident kurt away from the South Carolina Emergency Operation center so we are able to support them with whatever they may need. Can confirm from lexington county two fatalities from this incident. More than 50 transported to the hospital at this point. Those are initial reports. We have established a shelter at one of our local middle schools for the additional passengers so they have someplace warm and can have any
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Amtrak train on wrong track in deadly crash; it says freight line controls signals
Amtrak train on wrong track in deadly crash; it says freight line controls signalsby wpjljron
Monday, February 5th, 2018.Amtrak train on wrong track in deadly crash; it says freight line controls signalsA Miami-bound Amtrak train appeared to be on the wrong track when it collided with a freight train in South Carolina early Sunday, killing two people and injuring 116, according to authorities. Robert Sumwalt, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, said at a news conference Sunday afternoon that the track the Amtrak train was […]
A Miami-bound Amtrak train appeared to be on the wrong track when it collided with a freight train in South Carolina early Sunday, killing two people and injuring 116, according to authorities.
not severely injured with bumps and bruises and scratches. as what happened there was a deep ditch there and they brought our team in with lumber to get people across there. where the most severely injured people were and where the train apparently is off the track is out of sight. i m looking at some video in a preview monitor here. i think we just aired it from or some video from derek pettaway. yeah, i m the guy with the beard and brown coat. how close are we to roads and homes and businesses here? we are sitting alongside highway 321 south which is charleston highway and we are at the intersection of pine ridge drive. we are within 50 to a hundred yards of where this occurred. there is a bridge here that takes 321 on across the train tracks and, at that point, right on the right of that bridge is where they unload these new cars to put on trucks. and on the left is our farmers