Comparative Rail Safety

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

Some good news from EU.

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Tuesday, October 04, 2016
European railway accidents down 14% since 2014
Written by Dan Templeton

ACCORDING to an International Union of Railways’ (UIC) report released on October 4, improved safety in railway operations led to a 14% drop in 2015 in accidents compared with 2014, and a 32% decrease since 2006.

The report also highlights the causes of accidents. Of the accidents that occurred, 80% were due to external causes, and 47% were caused by trespassers.

The UIC safety database recorded that 20% of the significant accidents had internal causes, comprising technical, organisational, and human failures within the railway operation system, including passengers and other rail users.

For every 20 fatalities in 2015, one was a passenger or employee while 19 were third parties, mainly trespassers and level crossing users. Only one fatality of a train driver in collisions between trains and derailments was recorded in the 2014-2015 period. A total of 1624 significant accidents were recorded in 2015, significantly less than the 1879 significant accidents recorded in the previous year.

The report also presents a Global Safety Index (GSI), which reflects more than the number of events, because each accident is weighted according to the type of accident, number and category of victims, and responsibility. Therefore an overall safety trend can be produced without being influenced by isolated outliers such as infrequent major events.

The GSI highlights that 2015 was the safest year yet, scoring 7.81.

The full report can be read here.

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Why i still have the feeling that German railway are no better than Chinese railway in terms of safety!!?

I know many Americans who visited China were all in awe of China's HSR. They were asking themselves why America can't build these like China.

They need to spare money for the bombs dropped in middle east countries!!!
USA is strong but its money is also limited!
Military fares or infrustractures,you can not count on private companies such as Apple,Miscosoft to build a High speed railway line of 1000 kms right?

 

[TaiShang]

Friendly advice...

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Deficient management core reason for fatal high-speed rail crash in US

By Wang Jiamei Source:Global Times Published: 2017/12/21 23:58:14

After the deadly Amtrak derailment in the US state of Washington, US President Donald Trump tweeted that the accident underscores the need for his infrastructure plan. But it's misleading to talk about infrastructure without mentioning the deficient management system, the core reason behind the crash.

While the US rail system is facing the problem of aging infrastructure, the train in the accident was on its maiden voyage on newly constructed tracks. According to the latest media reports, the train was running at 80 miles (130 kilometers) per hour on a curved track with a speed limit of only 30 miles per hour.

This was also the 26th derailment that Amtrak has had in the US since 2014.

Aging infrastructure may have played a role in the frequent rail accidents, but poor and outdated management is more to blame, particularly when safety improvement lags far behind technology.

After a collision in 2008, the US Congress required all railroads to install "positive train control," a technology that can automatically slow down trains or stop them to prevent collisions, derailments and other accidents. The deadline was 2015, but it was then extended until the end of 2018 as rail authorities were slow to act. According to media reports, the equipment was installed on tracks in the Washington derailment, but it was not activated as it was still being tested.

China's high-speed railways have had accidents, but its safety culture has been improving continuously and has reached a relatively high level. It is often said that China and the US have large scope for infrastructure cooperation, especially in the rail segment. Such cooperation may sound good, but if the US management cannot keep up, it will be hard to really see any results from cooperation.

It may only take five years to finish a high-speed rail line in China, but under the old Amtrak-style management, who knows how many years it would require in the US.

With one of the world's largest railway networks, the US used to be the model for developing countries. Making America great again should start with reform and overhaul of management mechanisms, but that's the hardest part.

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1081545.shtml

 

[TaiShang]

1 killed after train carrying Republican lawmakers strikes trash truck

Last Updated Jan 31, 2018 6:54 PM EST

CROZET, Va. -- A chartered Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat hit a garbage truck on the tracks west of Washington just before 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, leaving one person killed. Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake was on board when the incident occurred about 125 miles southwest of Washington.

• GOP lawmakers tend to injured in Amtrak train accident

"We were going at a pretty good speed and all of sudden we heard, obviously, a loud crash and felt an impact," Flake said. "Everybody around us got thrown on the train car."

The lawmakers -- including House Speaker Paul Ryan -- were traveling with their families en route to a luxury resort in West Virginia for a three-day retreat.

"The closer you were, the more the impact there was. It did derail the engine of the car but it still took us a while to stop," Flake described.

Inside the train, injuries were not life-threatening. One lawmaker described colleagues prying open doors and jumping off the train.

First responders at the scene of a train crash in Crozet, Va., on Wed., Jan. 31, 2018.

JUSTIN IDE/CROZET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.
But outside, it was a different scene. One person in the truck was killed.

View of the scene following the accident when a train traveling from Washington to West Virginia carrying Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives collided with a garbage truck, in Crozet, Va., on Wed., Jan. 31, 2018, in this picture obtained from social media video.

@AndrewJin , @cirr , should China avoid selling sensitive rail tech out of national security concerns?

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

What can you expect from US public transport system,as ressorces are limited too much taxes of US spent on warfare which causes less money on infrastructures construction and upgrading,China has no sectets it mererly spends money on its own people rather than the bombs dropped on residents in iraq,afganistan,syria,libya,greenada,vietnam,north korea,ukrain....!
For god s sake US has 528 oversea military bases they want to make sure they are safe by putting gun on their presumed enemy heads.

 

[terranMarine]

US has a car and plane culture, frequent derailments with occasional fatalities here and there are very normal day of life. Therefor no money should be wasted on infra, it's only wasted investment. Instead money should be poured into weapons of mass destruction as we saw how it was used in the Middle East. ROI is very promising to MIC

 

[TaiShang]

US has a car and plane culture, frequent derailments with occasional fatalities here and there are very normal day of life. Therefor no money should be wasted on infra, it's only wasted investment. Instead money should be poured into weapons of mass destruction as we saw how it was used in the Middle East. ROI is very promising to MIC

US should invest in its military.

That's the only functioning aspect of US foreign diplomacy. Also comes cheaper, because it is in general composed of low-educated minorities.

 

[AndrewJin]

1 killed after train carrying Republican lawmakers strikes trash truck

Last Updated Jan 31, 2018 6:54 PM EST

CROZET, Va. -- A chartered Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat hit a garbage truck on the tracks west of Washington just before 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, leaving one person killed. Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake was on board when the incident occurred about 125 miles southwest of Washington.

• GOP lawmakers tend to injured in Amtrak train accident

"We were going at a pretty good speed and all of sudden we heard, obviously, a loud crash and felt an impact," Flake said. "Everybody around us got thrown on the train car."

The lawmakers -- including House Speaker Paul Ryan -- were traveling with their families en route to a luxury resort in West Virginia for a three-day retreat.

"The closer you were, the more the impact there was. It did derail the engine of the car but it still took us a while to stop," Flake described.

Inside the train, injuries were not life-threatening. One lawmaker described colleagues prying open doors and jumping off the train.

First responders at the scene of a train crash in Crozet, Va., on Wed., Jan. 31, 2018.

JUSTIN IDE/CROZET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.
But outside, it was a different scene. One person in the truck was killed.

View of the scene following the accident when a train traveling from Washington to West Virginia carrying Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives collided with a garbage truck, in Crozet, Va., on Wed., Jan. 31, 2018, in this picture obtained from social media video.

@AndrewJin , @cirr , should China avoid selling sensitive rail tech out of national security concerns?

Murica has a long way to match Sub-Sahara Africa in terms of railway investment.....

 

[TaiShang]

Murica has a long way to match Sub-Sahara Africa in terms of railway investment.....

Trump will invest in trillion-billions. SP12 F22 is all ears from his base in India.

 

[AndrewJin]

wow, American railway is now way more dangerous than Sub-Sahara African railways....
This is the new low for human infrastructure.....
Solution: increase military spending


Amtrak train on wrong track collides with freight train; 2 dead, 116 injured

An Amtrak train traveling on the wrong track collided into the back of a CSX freight train early Sunday in South Carolina, killing two Amtrak employees and injuring more than 100 people, authorities said.

It was the third deadly wreck involving Amtrak in less than two months.

“They weren’t supposed to be meeting like that, clearly," South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said. "It appears that Amtrak was on the wrong track.” He said the CSX train seemed to be on the track it was supposed to be on.

The wreck involving Amtrak Train 91, heading from New York to Miami, occurred at 2:35 a.m. in Cayce, S.C., about 10 miles south of Columbia, according to Derrec Becker of South Carolina Emergency Management.

The CSX train was parked on a side track when the Amtrak train slammed into it at about 59 mph, McMaster said.

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher identified those killed as Michael Kempf, 54, of Savannah, Ga., and Michael Cella, 36, of Orange Park, Fla. Kempf was the Amtrak engineer and Cella was the conductor, she said.

Speaking reporters, Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson said the signal system was not operational and the train's movements were being managed by a CSX dispatcher when it rear-ended the freight train. Although the train was behind schedule, it was not speeding to make up time, Anderson said.

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said a critical question investigators were looking into was why track switches in the crash area were "locked and lined" in a position that took the Amtrak train off the main track, where it struck the CSX train.

"For whatever reason, the switch was lined and locked to divert traffic to the side track. The key to this event is to learn why that (switch) was lined that way," he said.

Sumwalt said a forward-facing video recorder from the Amtrak train had been recovered and shipped to Washington for inspection. He said investigators were still searching for event data recorders from both trains. Data from those devices could indicate whether the Amtrak train braked before the impact, he said.

Sumwalt said the speed limit for passenger trains in the area is 59 mph.

He said 145 people were on the Amtrak train. That figure includes 136 passengers and nine Amtrak employees, including Kempf and Cella. Passenger injuries ranged from scratches to broken bones, Lexington County spokesman Harrison Cahill said.

One of the injured was in critical condition, and two were listed as serious, with the rest having minor injuries like cuts and bruises, said Steve Shelton, Palmetto health director of emergency preparedness.

“We know that they are shaken up quite a bit, and this is unlike anything else they’ve ever been through before,” Capt. Adam Myrick with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department told The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. “We wanted to get them out of the cold, get them out of the weather.”

Temperatures were in the upper 30s at the time of the collision.

McMaster described the freight train engines as "all torn up," and the Amtrak engine as "barely recognizable" from the impact.

Sam Rodriguez was a passenger on the Amtrak train, traveling from New York to Tampa with his mother. Rodriguez described "shaking from the back" of the train, then smoke and screaming.

"I said: 'Ma, you all right?'" he said. "'Don't move.'"

He said that his mother had a leg injury.

He said he helped a child get back to its mother after the crash and then tried to help another child with a head injury.

"Everything's a disaster," he said, describing piles of twisted metal and overturned toilets as he tried to move around the train after the crash.

President Trump "was briefed on the train accident in South Carolina and is receiving regular updates," deputy White House press secretary Lindsay Walters said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone that has been affected by this incident."

About 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled at the scene, Becker said. Hazmat crews were dispatched, and the spill was being contained. There was no threat to the public, he said.

The Red Cross set up an emergency shelter at a nearby school to assist with the injured, the Lexington County Sheriff's Department said on Twitter.

It was the second major crash for Amtrak in less than a week. On Wednesday, a train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat in West Virginia hit a garbage truck in rural Virginia. The crash killed one person in the truck and left others wounded.

In December, a passenger train derailed on an overpass near Seattle, with cars crashing into the highway below, killing three people.

In 2015, an Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia, killing eight people and injuring more than 200.

Contributing: Nikie Mayo, Anderson (S.C.) Independent Mail; Tim Smith, The Greenville (S.C.) News

 

[TaiShang]

wow, American railway is now way more dangerous than Sub-Sahara African railways....
This is the new low for human infrastructure.....
Solution: increase military spending


Amtrak train on wrong track collides with freight train; 2 dead, 116 injured

An Amtrak train traveling on the wrong track collided into the back of a CSX freight train early Sunday in South Carolina, killing two Amtrak employees and injuring more than 100 people, authorities said.

It was the third deadly wreck involving Amtrak in less than two months.

“They weren’t supposed to be meeting like that, clearly," South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said. "It appears that Amtrak was on the wrong track.” He said the CSX train seemed to be on the track it was supposed to be on.

The wreck involving Amtrak Train 91, heading from New York to Miami, occurred at 2:35 a.m. in Cayce, S.C., about 10 miles south of Columbia, according to Derrec Becker of South Carolina Emergency Management.

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The CSX train was parked on a side track when the Amtrak train slammed into it at about 59 mph, McMaster said.

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher identified those killed as Michael Kempf, 54, of Savannah, Ga., and Michael Cella, 36, of Orange Park, Fla. Kempf was the Amtrak engineer and Cella was the conductor, she said.

Speaking reporters, Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson said the signal system was not operational and the train's movements were being managed by a CSX dispatcher when it rear-ended the freight train. Although the train was behind schedule, it was not speeding to make up time, Anderson said.

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said a critical question investigators were looking into was why track switches in the crash area were "locked and lined" in a position that took the Amtrak train off the main track, where it struck the CSX train.

"For whatever reason, the switch was lined and locked to divert traffic to the side track. The key to this event is to learn why that (switch) was lined that way," he said.

Sumwalt said a forward-facing video recorder from the Amtrak train had been recovered and shipped to Washington for inspection. He said investigators were still searching for event data recorders from both trains. Data from those devices could indicate whether the Amtrak train braked before the impact, he said.

Sumwalt said the speed limit for passenger trains in the area is 59 mph.

He said 145 people were on the Amtrak train. That figure includes 136 passengers and nine Amtrak employees, including Kempf and Cella. Passenger injuries ranged from scratches to broken bones, Lexington County spokesman Harrison Cahill said.

One of the injured was in critical condition, and two were listed as serious, with the rest having minor injuries like cuts and bruises, said Steve Shelton, Palmetto health director of emergency preparedness.

“We know that they are shaken up quite a bit, and this is unlike anything else they’ve ever been through before,” Capt. Adam Myrick with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department told The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. “We wanted to get them out of the cold, get them out of the weather.”

Temperatures were in the upper 30s at the time of the collision.

McMaster described the freight train engines as "all torn up," and the Amtrak engine as "barely recognizable" from the impact.

Sam Rodriguez was a passenger on the Amtrak train, traveling from New York to Tampa with his mother. Rodriguez described "shaking from the back" of the train, then smoke and screaming.

"I said: 'Ma, you all right?'" he said. "'Don't move.'"

He said that his mother had a leg injury.

He said he helped a child get back to its mother after the crash and then tried to help another child with a head injury.

"Everything's a disaster," he said, describing piles of twisted metal and overturned toilets as he tried to move around the train after the crash.

President Trump "was briefed on the train accident in South Carolina and is receiving regular updates," deputy White House press secretary Lindsay Walters said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone that has been affected by this incident."

About 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled at the scene, Becker said. Hazmat crews were dispatched, and the spill was being contained. There was no threat to the public, he said.

The Red Cross set up an emergency shelter at a nearby school to assist with the injured, the Lexington County Sheriff's Department said on Twitter.

It was the second major crash for Amtrak in less than a week. On Wednesday, a train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat in West Virginia hit a garbage truck in rural Virginia. The crash killed one person in the truck and left others wounded.

In December, a passenger train derailed on an overpass near Seattle, with cars crashing into the highway below, killing three people.

In 2015, an Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia, killing eight people and injuring more than 200.

Contributing: Nikie Mayo, Anderson (S.C.) Independent Mail; Tim Smith, The Greenville (S.C.) News

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US should spend more on military and shoot down all the amtrak trains that derail as a punishment by accidentally dropping F-35 external fuel tanks upon them.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

wow, American railway is now way more dangerous than Sub-Sahara African railways....
This is the new low for human infrastructure.....
Solution: increase military spending


Amtrak train on wrong track collides with freight train; 2 dead, 116 injured

An Amtrak train traveling on the wrong track collided into the back of a CSX freight train early Sunday in South Carolina, killing two Amtrak employees and injuring more than 100 people, authorities said.

It was the third deadly wreck involving Amtrak in less than two months.

“They weren’t supposed to be meeting like that, clearly," South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said. "It appears that Amtrak was on the wrong track.” He said the CSX train seemed to be on the track it was supposed to be on.

The wreck involving Amtrak Train 91, heading from New York to Miami, occurred at 2:35 a.m. in Cayce, S.C., about 10 miles south of Columbia, according to Derrec Becker of South Carolina Emergency Management.

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The CSX train was parked on a side track when the Amtrak train slammed into it at about 59 mph, McMaster said.

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher identified those killed as Michael Kempf, 54, of Savannah, Ga., and Michael Cella, 36, of Orange Park, Fla. Kempf was the Amtrak engineer and Cella was the conductor, she said.

Speaking reporters, Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson said the signal system was not operational and the train's movements were being managed by a CSX dispatcher when it rear-ended the freight train. Although the train was behind schedule, it was not speeding to make up time, Anderson said.

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said a critical question investigators were looking into was why track switches in the crash area were "locked and lined" in a position that took the Amtrak train off the main track, where it struck the CSX train.

"For whatever reason, the switch was lined and locked to divert traffic to the side track. The key to this event is to learn why that (switch) was lined that way," he said.

Sumwalt said a forward-facing video recorder from the Amtrak train had been recovered and shipped to Washington for inspection. He said investigators were still searching for event data recorders from both trains. Data from those devices could indicate whether the Amtrak train braked before the impact, he said.

Sumwalt said the speed limit for passenger trains in the area is 59 mph.

He said 145 people were on the Amtrak train. That figure includes 136 passengers and nine Amtrak employees, including Kempf and Cella. Passenger injuries ranged from scratches to broken bones, Lexington County spokesman Harrison Cahill said.

One of the injured was in critical condition, and two were listed as serious, with the rest having minor injuries like cuts and bruises, said Steve Shelton, Palmetto health director of emergency preparedness.

“We know that they are shaken up quite a bit, and this is unlike anything else they’ve ever been through before,” Capt. Adam Myrick with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department told The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. “We wanted to get them out of the cold, get them out of the weather.”

Temperatures were in the upper 30s at the time of the collision.

McMaster described the freight train engines as "all torn up," and the Amtrak engine as "barely recognizable" from the impact.

Sam Rodriguez was a passenger on the Amtrak train, traveling from New York to Tampa with his mother. Rodriguez described "shaking from the back" of the train, then smoke and screaming.

"I said: 'Ma, you all right?'" he said. "'Don't move.'"

He said that his mother had a leg injury.

He said he helped a child get back to its mother after the crash and then tried to help another child with a head injury.

"Everything's a disaster," he said, describing piles of twisted metal and overturned toilets as he tried to move around the train after the crash.

President Trump "was briefed on the train accident in South Carolina and is receiving regular updates," deputy White House press secretary Lindsay Walters said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone that has been affected by this incident."

About 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled at the scene, Becker said. Hazmat crews were dispatched, and the spill was being contained. There was no threat to the public, he said.

The Red Cross set up an emergency shelter at a nearby school to assist with the injured, the Lexington County Sheriff's Department said on Twitter.

It was the second major crash for Amtrak in less than a week. On Wednesday, a train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat in West Virginia hit a garbage truck in rural Virginia. The crash killed one person in the truck and left others wounded.

In December, a passenger train derailed on an overpass near Seattle, with cars crashing into the highway below, killing three people.

In 2015, an Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia, killing eight people and injuring more than 200.

Contributing: Nikie Mayo, Anderson (S.C.) Independent Mail; Tim Smith, The Greenville (S.C.) News

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Seems US railway is trying really hard to break the record in the number of accidents.
Personnel death is sad though.

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

US railway is trying really hard to break the record in the number of accidents.

 

[AndrewJin]

US railway is trying really hard to break the record in the number of accidents.

This is one aspect of MAGA campaign.

 

[dy1022]

wow, American railway is now way more dangerous than Sub-Sahara African railways....
This is the new low for human infrastructure.....
Solution: increase military spending


Amtrak train on wrong track collides with freight train; 2 dead, 116 injured

An Amtrak train traveling on the wrong track collided into the back of a CSX freight train early Sunday in South Carolina, killing two Amtrak employees and injuring more than 100 people, authorities said.

It was the third deadly wreck involving Amtrak in less than two months.

“They weren’t supposed to be meeting like that, clearly," South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said. "It appears that Amtrak was on the wrong track.” He said the CSX train seemed to be on the track it was supposed to be on.

The wreck involving Amtrak Train 91, heading from New York to Miami, occurred at 2:35 a.m. in Cayce, S.C., about 10 miles south of Columbia, according to Derrec Becker of South Carolina Emergency Management.

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The CSX train was parked on a side track when the Amtrak train slammed into it at about 59 mph, McMaster said.

Lexington County Coroner Margaret Fisher identified those killed as Michael Kempf, 54, of Savannah, Ga., and Michael Cella, 36, of Orange Park, Fla. Kempf was the Amtrak engineer and Cella was the conductor, she said.

Speaking reporters, Amtrak CEO Richard Anderson said the signal system was not operational and the train's movements were being managed by a CSX dispatcher when it rear-ended the freight train. Although the train was behind schedule, it was not speeding to make up time, Anderson said.

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said a critical question investigators were looking into was why track switches in the crash area were "locked and lined" in a position that took the Amtrak train off the main track, where it struck the CSX train.

"For whatever reason, the switch was lined and locked to divert traffic to the side track. The key to this event is to learn why that (switch) was lined that way," he said.

Sumwalt said a forward-facing video recorder from the Amtrak train had been recovered and shipped to Washington for inspection. He said investigators were still searching for event data recorders from both trains. Data from those devices could indicate whether the Amtrak train braked before the impact, he said.

Sumwalt said the speed limit for passenger trains in the area is 59 mph.

He said 145 people were on the Amtrak train. That figure includes 136 passengers and nine Amtrak employees, including Kempf and Cella. Passenger injuries ranged from scratches to broken bones, Lexington County spokesman Harrison Cahill said.

One of the injured was in critical condition, and two were listed as serious, with the rest having minor injuries like cuts and bruises, said Steve Shelton, Palmetto health director of emergency preparedness.

“We know that they are shaken up quite a bit, and this is unlike anything else they’ve ever been through before,” Capt. Adam Myrick with the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department told The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C. “We wanted to get them out of the cold, get them out of the weather.”

Temperatures were in the upper 30s at the time of the collision.

McMaster described the freight train engines as "all torn up," and the Amtrak engine as "barely recognizable" from the impact.

Sam Rodriguez was a passenger on the Amtrak train, traveling from New York to Tampa with his mother. Rodriguez described "shaking from the back" of the train, then smoke and screaming.

"I said: 'Ma, you all right?'" he said. "'Don't move.'"

He said that his mother had a leg injury.

He said he helped a child get back to its mother after the crash and then tried to help another child with a head injury.

"Everything's a disaster," he said, describing piles of twisted metal and overturned toilets as he tried to move around the train after the crash.

President Trump "was briefed on the train accident in South Carolina and is receiving regular updates," deputy White House press secretary Lindsay Walters said. "Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone that has been affected by this incident."

About 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled at the scene, Becker said. Hazmat crews were dispatched, and the spill was being contained. There was no threat to the public, he said.

The Red Cross set up an emergency shelter at a nearby school to assist with the injured, the Lexington County Sheriff's Department said on Twitter.

It was the second major crash for Amtrak in less than a week. On Wednesday, a train carrying Republican members of Congress to a retreat in West Virginia hit a garbage truck in rural Virginia. The crash killed one person in the truck and left others wounded.

In December, a passenger train derailed on an overpass near Seattle, with cars crashing into the highway below, killing three people.

In 2015, an Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia, killing eight people and injuring more than 200.

Contributing: Nikie Mayo, Anderson (S.C.) Independent Mail; Tim Smith, The Greenville (S.C.) News

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Wow, typical thirld world sh!thole even worse than SP12 !

 

[Nan Yang]

Amtrak train breaks apart at 125 mph
By Danielle Furfaro

February 6, 2018 | 12:36pm

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A high-speed Amtrak train bound for Penn Station broke apart as it was cruising through Maryland on Tuesday, sources told The Post.

A high-speed Amtrak train bound for Penn Station broke apart as it was moving at top speed through Maryland.

The 2150 Acela was traveling from Washington D.C. to the Big Apple when the incident happened at about 6:30 a.m. The train was traveling at about 125 mph, according to the source.

“Someone could have been walking through the train when that happened and fell to their death,” said the source.

Amtrak officials confirmed the incident and said there were 52 passengers aboard at the time.

A photo shows the connector between two coupled trains broken and separated. Only the air hoses remained connected between the two cars, which both had passengers in them, said the source.

“There was a lot of sparking and smoking at the head of the train and a lot of bouncing around,” the source said.

A rescue train pulled up next to the crippled Acela and took the passengers to Philadelphia, where they then got other trains to continue on to New York City.

There were no injuries, said Amtrak officials, who added that they are investigating the incident.

“We are currently investigating the cause of the car separation, inspecting every Acela trainset, and taking any necessary actions to prevent a reoccurrence,” said Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams.

The incident happened just two days after an Amtrak train traveling through South Carolina slammed into the back of a freight train, killing two workers. And last week, an Amtrak train carrying several members of Congress slammed into a garbage truck in Virginia.