still upright? correct. okay. could you tell from the scene, when you were taken off the train, how many passenger cars may have derailed? it was pretty dark. i really couldn t see anything. just the ones that we could see were just kind of our car into the back, somewhere half on, half off. the cafe car was the one that looked like it received the worse damage and that is pretty much i didn t go to the front of the train so i really can t tell how many other cars were damaged or what the damage was. you had just minor whiplash. fortunately, no serious injuries for you, but for the people, you could see the people in your car, those maybe you passed. did you get a look or an idea of some of the other injuries that were there? i mean, the only other thing again, most of the people on my car were fine. i think it was just knocks and bruises. it looked like there may have been broken bones but other than
we were closer to the rear of the train in one of those sleeper cabins and just when the accident happened. i mean, i was dead asleep and i was awoken by the impact and then the crew came through really quickly and got everybody detrained in a really calm fashion and then first responders showed up within, you know, 10, 20 minutes. everything went well. i don t know the extent of everybody else s injuries but i really hope everybody else is doing well. i don t know a lot of other details other than that. so you were in one of the rear cars there. is it safe to assume that your car did not is not one of those that derailed? it was it was off the tracks. it was on or off? i couldn t decipher what you said there. i m sorry. it was off the tracks but it didn t there wasn t a lot of damage to the car. so it was off the tracks but
that, i didn t see too much. so how was everybody handling this when you were when you were getting off the train and emergency personnel was showing up? kind of help us understand what the scene was like there. i mean, it was it wasn t nobody was panicking. it was pretty it s 2:30 in morning. i m pretty sure everybody was asleep and i think people were in shock and everything was relatively orderly from where i was. between the time of that impact and when you were escorted off the train, we know there was a period they were searching to make sure they got everyone off, how long was that window of time between the impact and getting off the train? between the impact and getting off the train, i don t know. i d say it took, i don t know. it s really hard to tell the time, but i would say everybody was off after the impact about five to ten minutes it took to get our car detrained. have you been in contact with your family to let them know you re okay?