Long did it take Response Teams to get there with the buses to get the injured out . The buses took a little longer, but we got a lot of ambulances on the scene quickly. Our Fire Services very well equipped, very well trained, that i got here very quickly and began to treat people and to sort them. They brought the triage kits out and began to sort the most injured. There were the green tagged who were the less injured or not injured at all, and the yellow and red tags. Those went straight to the hospitals in columbia. We know there were two fatalities in this, i dont know if you have had any word, we dont know if it was from the csx train or the amtrak train, have you heard anything about that . That has not been released and the coroner has not released any information other than two people have passed. Anything else to describe on the scene, any indication as to why this collision happened . No, i will tell you again, this is near a freight yard where they unload new automobiles to
Three people were killed and one was injured after an Amtrak train struck a car at a railroad crossing in South Carolina on Saturday, local authorities
that, i don t know. we are going to leave that up to the investigating agencies to determine. we just know when we responded, there was a collision, a very evident collision and that we went to work immediately in securing those passengers, making sure that they were getting to the places that they needed to go and those passengers that didn t need transport were comfortable and warm and got food at the shelters they went to. harrison, can you help us understand what the condition those passenger cars were in? were any of them damaged to the point that they were hard to get into or get passengers out of? no. i don t think any any of the passenger trains that were involved in the collision were inaccessible to our emergency personnel or for the passengers to get out of. you said that you transported 70 people. there were reports of potentially some walking
wounded. do you know if in addition to the 70 transported that there were more people who went to local hospitals or taken by maybe people who were driving by or in this community? no, no. i don t have information regarding that. i know we did transport the 70 people. if we did see anybody walking along the tracks that may have been involved, our emergency personnel would have definitely responded and gotten them the attention and medical care that they deserved. any updated numbers on the people who went to the shelter? we spoke with derrick pettaway who was a passenger. he said 20 to 30 that time but maybe 30 minutes since that conversation. do you have the latest numbers? no, but i do have the red cross shelter attendant with me and he could answer those questions for you, if you d like. okay. sure, harrison, thank you. this is cussper langley from the red cross. my question was the number of
70 passengers to local hospitals. about 80% of those went to the lexington in richland, so we, again, this is the kind of scenarios that we train for and the reception there has been great. there were two fatalities and, you know, we are working through that with the lexington county coroner s office. the only thing that we can say is our hearts go out to the families of those affected. at this time, we are going to keep cooperating are all agencies together and make sure that this comes to a satisfactory end. harrison, do you know if the two fatalities they were both on the passenger train? could one of them been an engineer on the freight train? do you know yet? at this time, we have not been appraised of that information by the lexington county coroner s office so i wouldn t be able to give that information. harrison, do you know if both of these trains were in motion at the time?