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
breaking news. two people dead and 70 taken to hospitals after an amtrak train with nearly 150 people crashed into a csx freight train. this was in south carolina. the amtrak engine derailed after the collision along with several passenger cars. we don t know how many. we have on the phone with us paul kirby of the lexington ledger. you rushed over we understand and what did you see? when i got here ems and firefighters just arriving on the scene. immediately i pulled in as close as i could. from the top of the bridge you could see what the firefighters were calling the walked wounded and people not injured enough to have to be carried. and they were began to immediately triage, set it up. a helicopter began to circle right away and eventually landed
hospitals after an amtrak train with nearly 150 people on board crashed into a csx freight train in south carolina. it s a suburb of columbia, south carolina. the amtrak engine derailed with several passenger cars and right now we don t know how many passenger cars but we did speak with one of the passengers who was on the rear of the train in a sleeper car saying his with juan of them. we know a lot of people who were not injured have been taken to a middle school, pine ridge middle school there. the red cross is supporting them to keep them warm and fed until they figure out what happens from this point on. the lexington county sheriff says all of the passengers are off of that train. that is important to note. and that three area hospitals were treating those 70 some victims. their injuries ranging from some bumps and bruises to some serious broken bones perhaps. peter golds is the former managing director the national transportation safety board and he is on the phone bus now. wh
or how much advanced notice either of the engineers had before they knew that this could possibly end with this collision, but how long would they need to prevent it? how much distance would they need to prevent it? a lot. it takes for a regular, you know, a normal configured train, this one is probably about ten cars, this particular train usually is, it takes at least a mile. if the train was going 55 miles an hour, it would take at least at least a mile to slow and probably more to stop that train and that translates, obviously, at 60 miles an hour, at least a minute or so to do it. and, again, it s dark. as many have said, it s a rural area and close to a large city, columbia, but it would have been tough to see. so they couldn t have stopped quickly and the passengers didn t say there was any braking before the collision.
morning that an amtrak train collided with a csx train, your first thoughts. well, it highlights the difference between the u.s. rail system and, say, the european system where we have both freight and passenger trains competing for the use of the same track and that has been a problem for years and it s one that we have to deal with. it looks to me preliminarily as though the amtrak train may have side-swiped the freight train and because it did not look like it was a head-on collision. there would be far more damaging and far more far greater number of injuries. but, you know, amtrak has a cuff run. three accidents in recent