CAYCE, S.C. — The Latest on a deadly Amtrak train crash in South Carolina (all times local):4:30 p.m.National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt says the key to the investigation into a fatal Amtrak train crash will be why a switch was turned to force the passenger train onto a side track and into a parked freight train. Henry McMaster says the two people killed when a passenger train struck a freight train in South Carolina were Amtrak employees. Authorities say two people were killed when the Amtrak train struck a freight train around 2:45 a.m. Sunday near Cayce. ——8:35 a.m.Officials say two of the people injured in a South Carolina train crash have been admitted to the hospital. Cahill couldn’t say if the two people killed were on the passenger train or the freight train.

Source: National Post February 04, 2018 13:18 UTC