Federal investigators spent a second day Monday at the site of a deadly train crash in South Carolina, where an Amtrak train was mistakenly sent off a main track and down a side spur — and into a parked freight train. Train crash in South Carolina kills 2 Amtrak employees4:12"Business as usual must end," Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut said after this latest crash. The Silver Star was going an estimated 94 km/h when it struck the freight train, Gov. One car in the middle of the Amtrak train was snapped in half, forming a "V" off to one side of the tracks. And on Dec. 18, an Amtrak train ran off the rails along a curve during its inaugural run near Tacoma, Wash., killing three people and injuring dozens.

Source: CBC News February 05, 2018 16:32 UTC