amtrak beef up technology by installing circuits to control speeds along the northeast corridor. trains must be equipped with a safety feature that automatically applies the brakes when a train is exceeding certain speeds. we know this train was going 106 miles per hour at that turn. ntsb investigators believe the safety features would have prevented the crash on tuesday. the ceo of amtrak also saying they would. a short time ago amtrak issued this response. amtrak s overarching goal is to provide safe u and secure rail passenger travel. we will immediately implement the federal railroad draektives to improve safety along the northeast corridor. in the meantime investigators have made a stunning discovery about tuesday s derailment. one of the three engineers interviewed said the locomotive engineer on board that train reportedly had his windshield struck by some sort of object.