No way to run a railroad: Three fatal AMTRAK crashes in 49 days
Horrible
news from South Carolina this morning. If America is going to have a
passenger rail system, we have to do much better than this. Via The State:
It
would appear that something is seriously wrong with the way passenger
rail is operating in the United States under the federal corporation
AMTRAK. This crash is the third fatal AMTRAK crash since the AMTRAK Cascades
train derailed in Washington State at the cost of 3 lives and 62
passenger injuries only 49 days ago. Last Wednesday’s crash in Virginia
of a train carrying Congressional Republicans to a retreat killed one.
And now, the South Carolina crash has killed at least two.
Each of these three accidents had a separate, probably preventable cause, though of course official verdicts await formal proceedings.
The Washington State crash was due to excessive speed going into a curve.
The Virginia crash was due to a garbage truck on a grade crossing being hit by a train. There were some media reports that a crossing barrier that should have prevented access as a train approached was not functioning, but that is not absolutely clear as the cause.
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A crash involving an Amtrak passenger train and a freight train in Cayce, South Carolina, left at least two people dead and more than 50 injured.
It
would appear that something is seriously wrong with the way passenger
rail is operating in the United States under the federal corporation
AMTRAK. This crash is the third fatal AMTRAK crash since the AMTRAK Cascades
train derailed in Washington State at the cost of 3 lives and 62
passenger injuries only 49 days ago. Last Wednesday’s crash in Virginia
of a train carrying Congressional Republicans to a retreat killed one.
And now, the South Carolina crash has killed at least two.Each of these three accidents had a separate, probably preventable cause, though of course official verdicts await formal proceedings.
The Washington State crash was due to excessive speed going into a curve.
The Virginia crash was due to a garbage truck on a grade crossing being hit by a train. There were some media reports that a crossing barrier that should have prevented access as a train approached was not functioning, but that is not absolutely clear as the cause.
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