Sunday, February 4, 2018

Amtrak Collides With Parked Freight Train

This morning at around 2:35 a.m., an Amtrak passenger train collided with a parked freight train southwest of Columbia, South Carolina.  The Amtrak train was moving on the wrong track.  The Amtrak's engineer and conductor were killed.  Up to 116 people were reportedly injured.  Depending on the severity of their injuries, the passengers were taken either to a hospital or to a nearby school, where a shelter was set up.  No one was on board the freight train at the time of the collision.

Read more at CNN, CBS News, Reuters (via AOL), NBC News and Quartz.

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