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- Amtrak blamed a freight rail operator for a crash on Sunday that killed 2 and injured more than 100 others.
- It’s Amtrak’s third fatal crash in as many months.
- Amtrak says CSX Corp’s people padlocked the switch that diverted the Amtrak train onto the side track, where it hit the CSX train.
- CSX did not comment.
CAYCE, S.C. (Reuters) – Amtrak blamed a freight rail operator for causing a crash on Sunday that killed two people and injured more than 100 others when one of its passenger trains was diverted onto a side track and slammed into a parked, unmanned freight train in South Carolina.
In the U.S. passenger rail operator’s third fatal crash in as many months, Amtrak Train 91, carrying nine crew members and 136 passengers, was traveling from New York to Miami when it hit the CSX Corp freight train that was stopped on a side track, or siding, at about 2:35 a.m. (0735 GMT).See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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