He tells us he has a good guess as to what caused todays derailment raiment. Here at 30th street station many students are heading home for the o holidays and they were concerned given amtraks derailment south of seattle. Its a little scary. I think its crazy and i really feel for those people andheir families. Generally i feel safe but aveling in inclement weather its in the back of my mind. Robert mongeluzzi represented 34 passengers on amtrak train 188. The train derailed in Port Richmond with 238 passengers on board. Eight were killed and over 200 injured. The train was traveling over 100 miles an hour in a 50 Miles Per Hour zone when it hit a curve and went off the tracks. He sees striking similarities to todays derailment. The first thing that you think about when a train derails on a curve is it was going too fast. And when you see the locomotive, which is heavier and goes on a Straight Path while everything behind it falls over, it is eerily reminiscent of amtrak 188. Reporter
Down. Just seemed like theres always something happening around this area. Reporter lauer roo reid never expected to see something horrible like this. Passenger train cars toppled from the tracks. Down on top of traffic that was flowing below. When we got to the scene, it was obvious that there were some fatalities and there were a lot of injuries and some people were able to get off the train. Reporter those people taken away in ambulances or standing wrapped in blankets along the road. About 40 miles from the seattle amtrak station where they boarded the very first run of a faster new route. Multiple cars and trucks were struck by train cars that left the train tracks and went down on to the road. Its terrible thing. Very upsetting even though when you seat pictures its pretty horrific at this point nobody in any of the vehicles is a fatal. Fatals are contained to the train. Reporter emergency crews saying there was no one angle to make out here. Just what commuters on the train and
On the west coat will becoast we this afternoon. Reporter omar jimenez reporting. While the ntsb works to determine this crash it brings back memories of the crash that happened here in that Port Richmond just two years ago. Amtrak train 188 derailed in may 2015. Eight people were killed and more than 200 others were injured in that incident. The train was traveling 106 miles an hour in a 50 Miles Per Hour speed zone. Investigators determined that the engineer was distracted by an incident with a nearby train. In september, a judge dismissed charges against that engineer. You can follow the latest developments of the fatal amtrak derailment on 6abc. Com. You can watch video from the scene in washington state. Pennsylvania state senator day lon leach released a new statement. John rawlins live in Center City Philadelphia this afternoon with the very latest including john some reaction from the governor. Reporter thats correct. Leach is a state senator who has ambitions his goal in 2018
Date. Good morning. Reporter well, good morning to you, still, a very active and massive scene out hire this morning, than is where it all happened. Take a look down the interstate here. You can see that mangled mess of a train that we now know was going 50 miles an hour faster than it should have been. Federal investigators trying to determine what caused the Train Derailment in Washington State, that killed at least three, say, theyve recovered the event data recorder from the rear of the train. The National Transportation safety board says information so far indicate speed may have played a role. Preliminary indications are that the train was traveling at 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30 mile per hour track. This was the first trip for the new seattle to portland route. One local official seems to have predicted just few weeks ago that Something Like this would happen. The town of lakewoods mayor don anderson had been very vocal at City Council Meeting earlier this month, warning of the da
Will do harm levels flirtation with 60 degrees. Are you kidding me . Im all in. When you have the stretch of the coal like we in recent days here, i think it is nice lick break, like you said. Little sprinkle here and, there through the western counties, not really big deal, i dont think youll have any major problems with this, this will be fizzling, clearing out as the day goes on for more and more sunshine. Off to milder start. Currently 43 at the airport, 45 in palmyra. And out in quakertown, a measley 37. So, yes, there is still a chill in the air. But not as harsh of a chill. No where near as harsh as you would formally find. Look at the highs, yes, above average in a big way here. Fiftyeight is the call for philly today. With increasing amounts every sunday shine, it looks like a very nice day allinall. So, if you do have outdoor plans, maybe lit to the party to go cut down your tree or maybe to put out your holiday decorations you have perfect excuse for that here today and with