of the installation of ptc will be something that s very important for us to find out. but to be clear ptc is designed to prevent this type of accident. today ntsb investigators plan to interview surviving members of the amtrak crew while memories are still fresh. they ve recovered a forward facing video recorder from the train that could give clues to the train s speed before impact. the ntsb is trying to determine why a track switch was locked in the wrong position sending the train onto a side track where an empty csx freight train was parked. it just derailed. i don t remember much after that. knocked me out. the impact killed an engineer and conductor riding on board the locomotive. more than 100 people were injured. six of them remain hospitalized.
learning why that switch was lined that way. because the expectation, of course, is that the amtrak would be cleared and would be operating straight down like this. instead the passenger train was diverted to a side track where he crashed into a parked freight train. two were killed, more than 100 passengers were injured. there were bodies everywhere. the seats came up off the floor. glass came out all over the train. just bodies laying everywhere on top of one another. about half a dozen patients were admitted to the hospital. the others were treated and released. eric: so sad. jonathan, it has called for improved railroad safety that the positive train controls that could have been in effect but aren t. you mentioned pts implemented by the end of the
passenger train barreling down the wrong track and into a parked freight train. jonathan serrie is on the scene and west columbia, south carolina. third fatal train crash in as many months leaves two dead. investigators gather evidence at the side of the amtrak crash in south canada. the event data recorder from the amtrak locomotive was recovered and it was undamaged. it has been successfully downloaded. ntsb officials say a switch diverted amtrak train 91 from the mainline to a side track where it struck a parked csx freight train around 245 sunday morning. bodies everywhere. seats up off the floor. last week a train carrying republican members of congress crashed into a garbage truck at a railroad crossing, killing one person in the truck. and amtrak derailment killed three in december in washington state after the train failed to slow down while rounding a
eric: new details on the deadly train crash in south carolina. investigators now work to determine what exactly caused that amtrak passenger train to hurtle down a side track and slam right into a parked freight train. jonathan serrie is live in south carolina close to the location of that crash. jonathan, what exactly are the ntsb looking at, the signals and the switch? today investigators plan to talk to surviving crew members on board that amtrak train while their memories are still the fresh and can recall what happened. investigators are at the site collecting evidence. they ve already recovered a forward-facing video recorder from the amtrak train which may provide clues as to its speed and investigators are trying to determine why that track switch was locked in the wrong position. key to this investigation is
they have done. jonathan is live from west columbia, south carolina near the crash scene and with a news conference is being held. hello jonathan. hi eric. ntsb officials say they are looking at the data recorders on board the train. sort of like aircraft. not only data recorders but also on board trains, you have some video surveillance as well that they are going to be looking at. they ve already recovered one of the reporters which is on its way back to their headquarters in washington dc. they will have for further analysis but there will also be looking at the signal system and the switchers because it appears that at this point the amtrak train was diverted onto a side track for the freight train was. this was around 2:45 am this morning. the two crewmembers that died in this have been identified.