it was pretty it s 2:30 in the morning 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 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? 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? yeah. my wife got in contact with her family. they are fine. i ve reached out to friends and family. they all know i m okay. i m pretty sure they will wake up to my passengers but everybody has informed everybody that we are fine. i know there are more important things than what
derrec, i had read a report that there are walking wounded, people who are wounded and walking down the tracks. what can you tell me about the incident there? i can t confirm that. we have no reports of that at this point. what do you know about what is happening at the scene? right now, the scene, they are working, trying to ascertain any injuries, if there are any additional passengers and transport them to the center established by the red cross and department of social services. right now, the incident command is looking at making sure everything around the area is okay and we are still in the initial stages of this so this is probably going to be something that occurs for much of the day. derrec, do you happen to know how many passenger cars derailed? 140 passengers were on the train and we believe it was a regular route from new york to miami. right. do you know how many passenger cars derailed? cars, not at this point. the priority here is for those who were in
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 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.
pictures we received as you can see it there with at least one or two of those cars that are off the tracks. this happened about a little more than four hours ago at 2:30 this morning in cayce, south carolina, or pine ridge is what they are saying locally there. the train was running between new york and miami and those folks who are not injured have been transported to pine ridge middle school. red cross is assisting them there as they try now to determine where they go from here. this is a long route. we just talked to one of the passengers who was in one of the train cars in the back of the train and one of the sleeper cars there. he said he was going to orlando from philadelphia. so they are in the middle of their route and now trying to figure out what to do. we have got paul middle school. we also have more than a dozen volunteers and staff that are either on their way here or here right now. those staff members and volunteers are coming from across the state to ass
but when we brought our daughter home, that was it. now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it s the best thing that ever happened to me. every great why needs a great how. breaking news this morning. two team dead and more than 50 injured and taken to local hospitals after an amtrak train crashed in south carolina. there is a news conference that is happening with the south carolina emergency management and the lexington county sheriff and we will get the new information from that and bring it to you as soon as we get that in. we are monitoring that. we know the engine derailed. there were several passenger cars take derailed. three area hospitals are treating those victims but all of the passengers are now off the train. this is one of the first