information about other things on the track. at this point, we don t know if the csx train was moving or had been parked on the tracks but that will raise questions about the signaling, what were they able to see in those dark hours of the in the morning. but, most importantly, again, positive train control because this is exactly one of the things that supposed to prevent. this is a fair populated area and also near ft. jackson. lots of folks recognize that game where a lot of soldiers go through basic training there. the train stops also in orlando. so this is a popular way for people, vacationing families to get from new york through virginia, north carolina, south carolina, savannah, georgia, and then into orlando. it s a very popular route. a good route for amtrak, about 240,000 people a year on this route.
in cayce, south carolina. you heard the local reference to the pine ridge community. we have learned from south carolina emergency management that this is near interstates 26 and 77. if you know the area, several cars, you see one of the photos on the right of your screen, several passenger cars derailed. we still don t know how many, but according to one of the passengers on the train, derek pettaway was on a sleeper train and the car he was on derailed but still was upright. you can see on your right-hand side of the screen, that is one of the first pictures that we have gotten of the scene. this happening just about four and a half hours ago when this train these trains collided and derailed. but we do know that they are the people who are still there, who were not severely injured, not taken to hospitals or taken to a shelter, a middle school, pine ridge where the red cross is supporting their efforts
anything the public can do to help that this point? right now, stay away from this area. if you re coming to pine ridge for whatever reason, might be best to delay your trip or your plans for the next couple of hours. if there is anything that any information, call that amtrak number that harrison just gave any information you might need and any loved one on board that train call that telephone number and harrison can give it here directly in a minute. how is it going to impact traffic flow? certain area that is cordoned off? fortunately, this is a relatively low traffic area in terms of, especially on a sunday. highway 321 traffic impact should be minimal. can you talk about i guess the span of wreckage? is it quarter mile, half a mile? one of the things we are trying to determine to get more information for you. we have has type of thing and especially in regards to what the ntsb is doing and what
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 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
anything on the tracks that the tracks pick up will be transmitted to the train. so it would slow the train down in emergency situations if there was another train on the track ahead of it or overspeed situation. what it can t do, it wouldn t have stopped the collision last week where a garbage truck was crossing the train track when the train was there on the crossing. that is the difference between last week s crash and this week s crash. it certainly will renew the debate about that. but here, it sounds like a situation where, and it s highly unlikely that amtrak owned that track because it s heavily used by freight trains and, most likely owned by mary, i m looking on the woibl website for amtrak route 91 starts in new york and heads all the way down, as we know, to