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Title: 'Absolute disastrous mess': 6 dead, 150 injured after Amtrak train derails
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CNN
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Published: May 13, 2015
Author: By Sara Sidner, Kevin Conlon and Saeed A
Post Date: 2015-05-13 09:32:41 by GrandIsland
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Philadelphia Latest developments • National Transportation Safety Board officials are at the accident scene. • A sixth person has died as a result of the Amtrak train crash in Philadelphia, a doctor at Temple University Hospital said Wednesday morning. • One of the six killed was a student at the U.S. Naval Academy, a source says. Full story As day broke in Philadelphia on Wednesday, rescue workers were still searching inside the mangled wreckage of an Amtrak train that derailed the night before, killing at least six people and sending another 150 to various hospitals. Among those killed was a midshipman from the U.S. Naval academy in Annapolis, Maryland, a source close to the Naval Academy said. Temple University Hospital medical director Herb Cushing said Wednesday morning that 25 passengers were still at Temple -- the closest trauma center to the crash site -- eight of them in critical condition. Cushing said many of the injuries suffered by passengers came when other passengers or objects fell on them. 'Disastrous mess' "It is an absolute, disastrous mess," Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said of the crash site. "I've never seen anything like this in my life." Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188 was traveling from Washington to New York carrying 238 passengers and five crew members when it derailed about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia. The impact tore cars apart, sending seven of them flying from the tracks, and left the engine a mangled mess. "We have confirmed an engine and all seven cars derailed," a U.S. Department of Transportation representative told CNN on Wednesday, adding that the engine and two cars were left standing upright, three cars were tipped on their sides, and one was nearly flipped over on its roof. The seventh one is "leaning hard," they said. "We do not know what happened here. We do not know why it happened," Nutter said. There was no indication the derailment was a result of an impact with another train, he said. Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board arrived at the scene Wednesday morning to begin the investigation into what happened. So far, there's nothing to indicate the incident was an act of terrorism. The moment of impact "Until the second of impact, everything was normal," passenger Daniel Wetrin told CNN. "Then it was just chaos." Jeremy Wladis was in the very last car, eating. "The next thing you know, the train starts doing funny things, and it gradually starts getting worse and worse," he said. Then, things started flying -- phones, laptops. "Then people." "There were two people in the luggage rack above my head. Two women, catapulted (there)." Firefighters arrived to find seven cars and the train's engine derailed. Most of the passengers were able to escape, climbing out of windows to safety. Crews had to cut through the cars to get to others. Please make it stop' Janna D'Ambrisi was in the second-to-last car, reading a book when she felt the jolt. "Suddenly it felt like we were going a little too fast around a curve," she said. The car she was in started to tip, and she was thrown onto another girl. "People started to fall on us," D'Ambrisi said. "I just held on to her leg and sort of bowed my head and I was kind of praying, 'Please make it stop.' " Fortunately, her car didn't tip over and she was able to make it out safely. Heavily used stretch of track' The Northeast Corridor, which reaches from Washington to Boston, is the busiest passenger line in the country. The area of the crash in Philadelphia, known as Frankford Junction, was the site of one of the nation's deadliest train accidents; the Congressional Limited crash of 1943 killed 79 people. "It's an extremely heavily used stretch of track," transportation analyst Matthew L. Wald said of the area. "They have trouble keeping it in a state of good repair." The derailment was Amtrak's ninth this year alone, according to the Federal Railroad Administration, and while its cause has not yet been determined, some, like Wald, are already discussing the nation's aging rail infrastructure. "The President has been a longtime advocate for investing in our infrastructure and making sure that we have the kind of 21st century infrastructure we know is going be critical to the success of our country," White House press secretary Josh Earnest said on CNN's "New Day." Earnest said that the Obama administration is "hard at work" trying to figure out what caused the crash, and that their thoughts and prayers are with the families of everyone effected. Service between Philadelphia and New York City remained suspended Wednesday, according to Amtrak. Those seeking information about friends and family aboard the train can call an Amtrak hotline established for this incident: 1-800-523-9101.
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#1. To: All, Willie Green (#0)
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This probably won't promote your liberal global warming choo choo Dream.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
Congressman Bill Shuster should be indicted for manslaughter & willful negligence for failure to provide sufficient funding for adequate maintenance & operation of safe transportation infrastructure.
And still our borders are left wide open. Do you ever get the feeling that congress, the administration and the courts are some how in alliance with isis?
When you start talking about suing the government because they didn't tax and spend enough... it' will be the pathway to full fledged socialism. Transportation should be owned and operated by private industry. If a company can't make a train safe enough, cheap enough and convenient enough to compete with buses, planes and cars... then scrap it. Regardless how arroused you get at the thought of the choo choo
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
He wishes that train was doing 300 mph.
Our borders are left wide open because the 3rd world garbage that's flooding our country are POTENTIAL FUTURE VOTERS. And the fact that the average American teenager is too entitled, lazy and high to do the low life jobs.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
He wishes that train was doing 300 mph. lol Ps... I do too if it was jam packed with able bodied welfare and career criminals.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
The railways should be no different than the highways, roadways, airways & waterways. The private sector can own/operate and compete with the trains/trucks/buses/plates/boats & barges... but the infrastructure.. the right-of-ways/tracks/pavement/bus stops, airports, train stations, docks, locks, dams, bridges, tunnels etc. etc. should all be owned, operated and maintained by the government. NO private company should be permitted to have monopolistic control over a transportation right-of-way. That is an infringement of our fundamental freedom to travel. But the private sector should be permitted equal access (with appropriate vehicles) to compete in providing whatever form of transportation they choose, and provided that it doesn't impinge upon somebody else's freedom to travel.
A decade and a half ago I would frequently do the
Before they hang Bill Shuster from the nearest tree, maybe they should determine if the train was travelling too fast when taking the curve.
So I'm curious to where that almost 1 Trillion dollars of Stimulus money that was supposed to be spent on infrastructures went?? Oh wait never mind I forgot it all got spent on Unions and other Democrat supporters/voters instead of infrastructures. Silly me.
“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Democrats never met a generation they weren't afraid to steal from, heck, they are stealing trillions from the ones who haven't even been born yet.
Almost everyone had their hand in that cookie jar
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on. Robert Kennedy
As long as they maintain the "perception" that they care and are trying real hard the dumbasses will still vote for them no matter what. Cause the results don't matter, just ask Hitlery she'll tell you. “Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.”
Absolute disastrous mess': 6 dead, 150 injured after Amtrak train derails
#2. To: GrandIsland (#1)
#3. To: GrandIsland (#0)
#4. To: Willie Green (#2)
(Edited)
Congressman Bill Shuster should be indicted for manslaughter & willful negligence for failure to provide sufficient funding for adequate maintenance & operation of safe transportation infrastructure.
#5. To: GrandIsland (#1)
"This probably won't promote your liberal global warming choo choo Dream."
#6. To: BobCeleste (#3)
#7. To: misterwhite (#5)
(Edited)
#8. To: GrandIsland (#4)
Transportation should be owned and operated by private industry.
#9. To: GrandIsland (#0)
Christmas Eve ride on Amtrak from Richmond, VA
to Philadelphia - to spend Christmas with my parents.
But the snack-bar-lounge car-bar ALWAYS ran out of
turkey sandwiches. It was consistent.
#10. To: Willie Green (#2)
"Congressman Bill Shuster should be indicted for manslaughter & willful negligence for failure to provide sufficient funding for adequate maintenance & operation of safe transportation infrastructure."
#11. To: Willie Green, Too Conservative, GrandIsland (#2)
#12. To: CZ82, Willie Green (#11)
#13. To: CZ82 (#11)
I'm curious to where that almost 1 Trillion dollars of Stimulus money that was supposed to be spent on infrastructures went??
#14. To: Dead Culture Watch, Willie Green (#12)
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