not severely injured with bumps and bruises and scratches. as what happened there was a deep ditch there and they brought our team in with lumber to get people across there. where the most severely injured people were and where the train apparently is off the track is out of sight. i m looking at some video in a preview monitor here. i think we just aired it from or some video from derek pettaway. yeah, i m the guy with the beard and brown coat. how close are we to roads and homes and businesses here? we are sitting alongside highway 321 south which is charleston highway and we are at the intersection of pine ridge drive. we are within 50 to a hundred yards of where this occurred. there is a bridge here that takes 321 on across the train tracks and, at that point, right on the right of that bridge is where they unload these new cars to put on trucks. and on the left is our farmers
that, i don t know. we are going to leave that up to the investigating agencies to determine. we just know when we responded, there was a collision, a very evident collision and that we went to work immediately in securing those passengers, making sure that they were getting to the places that they needed to go and those passengers that didn t need transport were comfortable and warm and got food at the shelters they went to. harrison, can you help us understand what the condition those passenger cars were in? were any of them damaged to the point that they were hard to get into or get passengers out of? no. i don t think any any of the passenger trains that were involved in the collision were inaccessible to our emergency personnel or for the passengers to get out of. you said that you transported 70 people. there were reports of potentially some walking
crash. how long do you think it will be before you ll have more information in terms of what happened, how much time will elapse? great question. we should be we do plan to do a press conference this afternoon and tell what we know at that point. our guys and investigators are very good with being able to get the information that they need so i would say that later this afternoon we should be able to start confirming information. the investigation itself we ve got a lot going on, of course. we just had a crash on wednesday. there was one a few months ago in december, december 18, so our rail division is pretty busy. generally speaking, anywhere between 12 and 18 months is about what our rail investigations are taking these days. all right. chairman, we appreciate you so much being here. robert sum wawalt thank you for your time this morning. thank you very much. let s bring in adam myric,
will assist as we are needed. is there anything the red cross needs at this point to take care of these people? at this point, our volunteers are dedicated. they are ready to help in any way possible. we are going to keep this reception site open for as long as needed and provide a warm safe place for these folks to collect themselves and to stay for as long as they need it. we spoke with harrison cahill, pio for the county of lexington there with this crash happening and along the red cross cuthbert langley. we will keep repeating this number for amtrak. 1-800-523-9101. we are continue with the breaking news moments. need a change of scenery? kayak compares hundreds of travel and airline sites so you can be confident
from the lexington point. what can you add to this conversation about what s happening there and the latest on both those injured, the scene there, just fill us in. sure. one quick clarification, lexington county sheriff s department on that algs. right now we are in a response mode, of course. still, we can share with you the passenger train and the freight train collided. our role here at the sheriff s department is to make sure that the site, the scene remains secure, so we have units taking care of that. we also have units taking care of traffic control points around the perimeter of the scene because this is an active and an ongoing investigation. we want to make sure that those who need to access the scene to get down there, those who don t we quite frankly want them to stay away. we re encouraging the public to stay away from this area because, unfortunately, this time on a sunday morning it s