Amtrak Crash

The NTSB investigation is underway into a fatal Amtrak passenger train crash in South Carolina.

At least two people are dead and over a hundred injured following a train crash in the early hours of Sunday morning 10 miles south of Columbia, South Carolina. Amtrak train 91 was carrying more than 140 passengers and crew between New York and Miami, and was apparently traveling on the wrong track before smashing into a stationary freight train. The engineer and conductor were both killed. The NTSB is on the scene investigating, focusing on why a switch was changed to force the passenger train onto a side rail where the freight train was parked. In the wake of this latest accident, Amtrak’s president is calling on regulators to push track operators to install GPS-based technology to help prevent this and other crashes.