The December 2017 derailment was just the latest in a string of Amtrak crashes in the past three years.
Multiple passengers dead might that changes. Rail. And Amtrak train 501 left Seattle just after 6 AM heading toward Portland 86 passengers and crew on board and 7:33 AM a locomotive and twelve cars careened off both sides of the overpass down onto busy interstate five. Crushing vehicles below. A smashed windshield the Amtrak engine’s front wheels off the tracks after the violent collision at least 35 of the 331 on board. Hospitalized many thrown from their seats. Just before 8 in the morning south of Philadelphia officials say as the train was traveling south through the area on its way to Savannah Georgia somehow that backhoe was on the active rail line. Amtrak train slamming strayed into and debris flying into the first couple of Amtrak cars the two dead at the operator the backhoe and a supervisor according to a federal official. Federal investigators on the ground in Kansas and trying to figure out what sent this Amtrak train. Flying off the tracks yeah. District derailment. I don’t know medication and I’m. Just after midnight to the train carrying a 145 people traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago then the engineer notice is a significant event or defects in the track and hits the brakes. Following protocol to avoid a bigger disaster but eight cars are still come off. More than thirty passengers taken to the hospital two with critical injuries in early. Amtrak train that derailed here overnight. Was in fact going more than a hundred miles per hour at the time of the crash. The speed limit and all met her just fifty miles per hour at 7:10 PM Amtrak 188 leaving Washington DC. 238 passengers on board and five crew members and 28 PM the first call to train ripping from the tracks and a sharp curve in Philadelphia’s Frankfort neighborhood. Moments sleep the cost. Atlanta provided as a bit casually yeah. One streak the delegates including he does he. Urgent search for passengers in the darkness rescue using flashlights surrounded by the twisted cars three on the sides one upside down and others off the tracks. More than 200 treated at local hospitals ten in critical condition tonight. A miracle on the tracks for 98 passengers aboard this Amtrak train to Washington DC. Surviving a derailment that could have so much worse anthrax as the trade reportedly you know rock slide. Two of the course planted in a rock injuring seven people.
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