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Caught On Tape: Moment Of Deadly Amtrak Train Crash
Amtrak Regional 188, with over 200 passengers aboard, was traveling at 106 mph just before "the entire train derailed" in Philadelphia, federal investigators said Wednesday, according to NBC News, more than twice the speed limit at the curve where it hurtled off the tracks. With the death toll now raised to seven, and officials still unable to account for everyone on board, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter exclaimed, "I don't believe that anyone standing here today has any memory of a derailment of this kind in 50 years," and judging by the following clip - we are stunned the fatality count was so low.
The locomotive and all seven passenger cars of the train went off the tracks at a tight curve at Frankford Junction, just northeast of center city Philadelphia. As The Wall Street Journal details, multiple cars overturned, severely injuring some passengers and pinning others.
At least seven were killed, and more than 200 passengers were injured, including eight who were in critical condition Wednesday afternoon. The seven dead comprised four people whose bodies were found inside the train, two who were found outside and one who died at a hospital, police Lt. John Walker told NBC Philadelphia.
The northbound train was carrying 238 passengers and five crew members when it derailed about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday on its way to New York.
The National Transportation Safety Board, the main federal agency investigating the derailment, said preliminary data put the train’s speed above 100 miles an hour.
According to the Federal Railroad Administration, the speed limit drops from 80 mph to 50 mph at the curve where the train derailed. But the train was hurtling along at 106 mph when the engineer slammed the emergency brake — slowing the train only to 102 mph when its recorders stopped recording data, said Robert Sumwalt, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.
At that point, "the entire train derailed," Sumwalt said.
Dozens of people were still being treated in Philadelphia hospitals with injuries ranging from cuts and broken bones to head trauma.
Chief Medical Officer Herbert Cushing said Temple University Hospital, where many of the most seriously injured were being treated, had eight patients in critical condition, who he said "are going to do just fine."
"Almost everyone has rib fractures," Cushing said, which indicates that "they rattled around in the train car a lot."
All of the patients at Temple are adults ranging in age from their early 20s to their 80s, Cushing said. Patients from Spain, Belgium, Germany, India and Albania are among those involved.
The engineer of the train was also injured and gave a statement to police, Nutter said.
The derailment damaged all seven cars of the train, including some that were overturned and one that was mangled. Passengers and luggage were tossed around inside, and survivors described having to force doors open or clamber through windows to safety.
Grainy security footage from a nearby camera captured several flashes of bright light as the train crashed.
Eye witness accounts are terrifying...
Andrew Brenner, 29, a public-relations expert who lives in Washington, said he was relaxing and texting in the last car with his shoes off. He said he noticed that the train seemed to be taking a curve rather fast, but it didn’t cause much alarm. Then, the train jolted and swayed. Within moments, Mr. Brenner said he and other passengers were tossed around cars as seats were ripped from the train floor.
“I got thrown like a penny,” said Mr. Brenner, who said he weighs 250 pounds. “That is how violent this was.”
After the crash, Mr. Brenner said he was taken along with other passengers by bus to a hospital, where X-rays showed damage to his vertebrae.
Brooklyn, N.Y., resident Beth Davidz, 35, said she remembered only a hard turn and a jerk. “Then it was just blackness. I was bouncing up and down in blackness,” she said.
Although she tried not to look at the wreckage as she left the train, she noticed the first and second cars looked badly damaged. “I didn’t see anyone getting out,” said Ms. Davidz, a project director with a Philadelphia-based startup.
More than 120 firefighters and 200 police responded to the chaotic scene that included several badly mangled railcars, officials said.
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US Passenger train injries are on the rise...
Amtrak suspended service between New York and Philadelphia on its Northeast Corridor, the busiest stretch of track in the country for passenger travel. The section of track where the train derailed will have to be rebuilt.
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The engineer of the derailed Amtrak train has been identified as 32 year old Brandon Bostian...
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ISIS!!!
It's already started .... Another terrible event will be used as the centerpiece for disinformation and fear porn to increase National Security, particularly with respect to middle aged white Protestant males married with 2 kids struggling to make ends meet, confiscation of firearms.
Was this filmed with a potato?
And here I thought the supervillan ISIS was going to hack the train.
"WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY'LL HACK NEXT"
the left-tards are already blaming the Republi-tards for this because they want to "cut funding", blah, blah, blah. Then it's going to be twisted into some terror attack by either ISIS/Al-CIA-duh or all us "right-winger" Constitutionalist patriot "domestic terrorists".
When in reality it's going to come down to some douche-bag gub-ment "werker" who was going way to fucking fast, jabberin' on his obama phone, or asleep at the throttle when they hit the turn in the tracks.
But of course, SCAM-trak is a massive gub-ment boondogle agency costing tax payers massive billions of dollars every year, so the corrupt D.C. shitbags will cover this all up and blame it on everything in the universe but their own sociopathic selves and their corrupt system.
I fucking hate trains too. I hate subways, L-trains, trains of any kind. The dream of Marxists and Fascists are trains to move the masses.
And as far as I'm concerned all trains in this world still lead to Auschwitz (and FEMA camps) one way or another...eventually.
I rode the Amtrak from Washington DC to New York Monday of last week. Its the only way to get to New York. Convenience, cost, time, comfort, get work done while in transit, etc. All very, very superior to the alternatives. Is what i pay reflective of the actual expenses? I don't know. I suspect it cost a lot more than what I pay. But as long as Biden is in the White House and Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York keep delivery Dem electoral vites, it will stay that way.
I suspect that indeed we will find that Obamaphones were in the mix.
Attnetion Deficit Disorder Syndrome generation.
And no, I don't want self driving cars and GD trains under automatic control.
At least $60 of every amtrack ticket is paid by taxpayers, as in, subsidized by the productive class.
so was mr hugs, asleep, drunk, or getting track head?
all of the above
delete
There was an Italian high speed train crash a while ago, similar the driver was going way too fast.
Looking at deaths per billion miles, rail travel is just about the safest way to travel, way safer then by car.
Guessing, there are probably this number or more people killed in car accidents EVERY week.
Coasta Concordia style.
How much of your highway was subsidized, or your car?
"collectivized" transportation.
Out of concern for equality will it be necessary to kill the survivors?
We wrecked some folks.
....damn near killed em.
Gubmint transportation disaster = train exceeds speed limit @ 106MPH. Result? 7 dead.
What Remains of Free Market Transportation Disaster = Passenger Jet fall short of runway, and pirouttes at 150 MPH. Result 3 Dead, one killed by Gubmint worker rushing to the rescue.
When gubmint comes to the rescue...RUN away!!!
"Caught On Tape: Moment Of Deadly Amtrak Train Crash"
What was caught on tape again?
Ridin' that train/
High on cocaine/
Casey Jones you better/
Watch your speed!
Trouble ahead/
Trouble behind/
And you know that notion/
Just crossed my mind.
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, gone, nothin's gonna bring him back...He's gone.
Yeah, like that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BgzrfUA8lo
He feels the piston scraping
Steam breaking on his brow
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train it won't stop going
No way to slow down.
My father in law was a railroad engineer. Told me it was the most boring job imaginable. He and the fireman just tried to stay awake. Several times they both fell asleep and cruised through towns at very high speeds. This could have happened here. I hope texting wasn't involved.
Miffed
Or maybe he was involved in some Coasta Concordia action in the front of the train. He probably had a stewardess's butt pushed up against the throttle and accidentally knocked it into 'Death defying speed'.
All day long..."See, this is what happens when you don't spend on infrastructure!!"
Q: How much of the Trillions of QE was spent on improving/updating transportation? Communication? Education?...you get the idea.
That's why the thing must be blamed on human error...the type of human who gets a weekly paycheck, not an obscene bonus and stock options.
Well, how shovel ready was it? There ya go!
See all that fucking money in my neck of the woods went to pay for signage about improvements yet to be done courtesy of the Yaddayaddafuckmelookieherema American Restoration and Taxpayer Rape and Fistfucking Act with politicians names on it. I mean, the worst goddamned roads didn't even get fixed, but the signs announcing Nirvana were everywhere ....
That's what you got?
We got mile after mile of concrete sound barriers preventing the traffic noise from disturbing the squirrels in the woods by the highways
No amount of money can fix stupid.
106 mph in a 50 mph curve ain't infrastructure failure. Its simply the leveraged cost of a few having the lives of many in their hands.
Think how many have their lives in the hands of Obama tonight.
Driver asleep? Or texting?
Hard to believe they don't have some kind of speed limiter or cruise control system.
Russian hackers (or at least that is where the blame will fall) or else a suicidal engineer with closeted gender identity issues leading to depression. Don't assume there were no safeguards, but then don't assume you will ever hear the truth. Sucks to be paranoid but I'm this way because THEY are out to get me. /s <sort of>
Was Zachiem's remote control installed?
I thought I saw that engineer manning the 7/11 in Ferguson last summer on the TV. Mumbling something about jihad.
Hey!!!! Workplace violence. No combat pay here. Just move along.
Ooooops. Somebody with a cell phone video just revealed a drone flying overtop the train. Poooootin did it.
Close Amtrak. Nothing but a big government program which rapes the American people yearly
Last time AmTrak hires someone named Casey Jones.
He's a real-life version of Butthead:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=beavis+and+butthead&iax=1&ia=images
106 MPH on a 50 MPH turn.
Engineer fell asleep or did it on purpose.
Do they have a "cockpit voice recorder" on the train?
If you hear: "Alahu Akbar!" it was a sleeper jihadist.
If you hear: "Oh Shit!" he/she fell asleep.
I highly doubt this and all the other accidents Amtrak and all the shale oil clowns have been having are "intentional."
More like "who-hoo! Joy riding on the taxpayer subsidized dime! Fuck you car and driver!"
Rail accidents are far from rare and worse still...they are spectacular when they happen.
Sorry but "lack of funding" is not an excuse for doing a hundred in a fifty.
Lack of oversight is more like it.
Kinda symbolic of the whole War on Terror actually.
"Here's another trillion! That should fix it!"
Trains don't start or stop on a dime, someone at Amtrak should have noticed the shit was about to hit the fan several miles before the train derailed. It's not like Amtrak doesn't have real time tracking of its trains. Where's the voice of someone in a control room asking WTF to the operator?
Derailed Amtrak train lacked latest U.S. safety controls
Passenger rail should have died in America when it was no longer profitable. THe progtards that nationalized it set this scene in motion decades ago.
But what about THE BASICS?
Amtrak administration knows where every engine is on their lines and how fast it is traveling, they know the speed limits on each section of track, and they can calculate in realtime the required breaking distance for any weight train at any speed. They have been able to do this for decades. If management has stopped doing their job, then perhaps management should be hanged out to dry.
Moar money is tired and disproven and often counterproductive solution.
"If management has stopped doing their job, then perhaps management should be hanged out to dry. "
This is the problem all over the whole fucking nation. The Management in the Corporations and Institutions of Government have all stopped doing their damned jobs and now just suck the system for money and bennies and pass the shit downstream to peopns and taxpayers.
When was the last time the CEO of a bank or major corporation was sent to prison for a good long term in the US?
When was the last time a management failure in a Government fiedfom resulted in the CEO and/or other responsible upper management class of the institution going to prison for a good long term in the US?
When was the last time a government run industry was dismantled and/or privatized in the US?
You have a run-away government.
'We'll have to pass the bill to see what is in it.' has morped into 'we will have to take the turn at 106mph to see if what happens.' because criminality and blatant irresponsibility are never punished in this country.
People died? "What difference does it make?"
what happened to the 'Deadmans switch"?
It's even more surprising there's only one engineer.
Probably he was on Tinder looking for a hookup in NYC. "Ya, and I'm hung like a ... oh crap I just derailed my train ... sorry gotta go."
Yes it must have been Mohammad the camel fucker. I have a pic.
The question nobody seems to be asking is not why he was doing 2X the rated speed on the curve, but rather why he was doing 106 on the straight tracks which were only rated for 70. Was he trying to make up for lost time? Does Amtrak incentizive this behavior? It isn't like a frekin tractor trailer on I95 where time really does come out of the driver's wallet. Besides, you have to fiigure that Amtrak can reconstruct or NTSB can reconstruct the average speed over each ten mile segment of track. You fogure they would do audits. Why were you 42% over the rated speed on that segment in New Jersey last October, and then 25 % over in Delaware in January? You break the rules all the time buddy. You be fired.
No. Alahu Akbar seems to be making more and more sense. I think there was a Muhammad cartoonist in the second car on his way back from Texas.
Maybe the guy fell asleep and pushed the throttle forward.
Right out of the 30th st station, too. I doubt there is any stretch between 30th st and the wreck site where 100 is a legit speed. Maybe he speeds there all the time to make up time, and this time he forgot top slow down quickly enough. Or he was on a cellphone or masturbating and wasn't paying attention.
What an absolute mess...
ISIS from caves in Syria.
What does "Robbie Parker" have to say?!
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
A new "terrorist" org: The previously unknown "100MPH Into a Curve" group out of DC. They hate us for "riding" their trains.
That's what you get for hiring a sodomite on Affirmative Action.
So Bernanke is driving trains now........
The engineer/gay activist was a 'diversity hire' - not hired because he was/would be a good engineer. Seven people now dead because of 'diversity hiring' of homosexuals. Now that's progress!
From ABC news website: "National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said that their go-team have not yet met with the engineer, but they "plan to."
"This person has gone through a very traumatic event and we want to give him the opportunity to convalesce for a day or so before we interview him," Sumwalt said.
"Want him to convalesce for a day or so before we interview him." As in get the cover story straight.
Here's more background on the chap: http://heavy.com/news/2015/05/brandon-bostian-amtrak-philadelphia-crash-...
The right to remain silent, to not testify against yourself, is not just a clever made for tv cop show cliche. Let the other evidence speak for itself, no need to play Kommisar and mock the man for exercising his human right.
Come on!!
we live to mock.
Its our constitutional right!
maybe its a thing. A gay-train?
http://www.wnd.com/2009/09/109553/
Just saying, I can see how it would be distracting.
Bingo. It's a gay thing. Hence the coverage will stop dead in its tracks.
Wait, wait. Don't tell me.
They found him practicing in the simulator how to start trains but not how to stop them.
Yes, but you would have to admit that it would be far more interesting if he had been hospitalized with a torn asshole and they had found blood and shit on the hand throttle.
106mph...at least!!
Next time in DC, walk the halls of any Government building and tell me what you see.
Industrious people tearing themselves away from their productive tasks to inquire as to how they might better serve me?
Well, I guess he should be thrilled about the ass fucking he's about to get.
Government transportation. Caltrans just informed the public that the bolts holding down the main structure on the bay bridge (brand new with extensive cost overruns see notes) may be broken. WTF?
Note: will cost extra billions to convince nesting cormorants to nest on the new bridge.
note: will cost extra billions because 20 smelt swim around the old bridge and so they can't demo it.
No Shit, I'm not making this up. We are doomed by the idiots running the joint.
Slammed the brakes on in the middle of a curve? How much experience does he have operating vehicles of any kind?
It sounds like he was sleeping or inattentive and then panicked. The sheer momentum of the train ripped the tracks out of the track bed.
I will gladly decline Brandon Bostian's offer of a free hug.
Fucking Dems are already trying to blame this tragedy on lack of funding for the infrastructure. That had NOTHING to do with it! It was the fucking engineer going TWICE the damn speed limit on a curve!
Well, we are all haters. Using a rational mind is an act of hate. Only emotional decisions emote love.
Most 18-wheelers are set at 65 mph. Some a bit faster, some a bit slower. Some, 'independants', might not have speed set at all. Is set in the onboard computer.
You tell me that these people are newbie riders, or have most of them ridden that train before this night? You tell me that NONE of these sheep didn't know, couldn't tell, that they were going TOO DOGDAMN FAST?? Really? Why didn't some or at least ONE of 'said sheep' get up off their lazy arse and go to the Conductor car and knock on the damn door and see if he is alive or asleep. Or, just enjoy the new, improved, high-speed trains that our O'buddy has given us! Yeah@ Change!!
I've been in cars and on Amtrak where there you couldn't tell how fast the car or train was going.
It's like watching a plane fly overhead at a distance. The plane might be going 400 miles an hour, but it looks like it's barely moving.
Boston brakes on a train? Thanks, CIA murderers!
Since I don't do lamestream news I don't know what, if any, types of automated braking systems are on board Amtrak commuter trains. btw, JoeGo1, I just moved from the Bay Area back to So. Cal, which I hate, but I've made it a point to not cross the new Bay Bridge at all. I've always used the Golden Gate Bridge to go into the city. I don't trust any public or private entity that had anytrhing to do with the building of the 'new Bay Bridge'. That sucker is going down and I ain't gonna be on it when it does. Our tax dollars at work.
I live just a few blocks from here....messed up. Philly makes ZH but unfortunately in a bad way.
The pilot was trying to get back in the cockpit
Serious question;
Is there any place on that entire run that particular train is normally operated at 100 mph or more?
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Obviously this is a sign of systemic corruption and general incompetence in operating railroads. America needs to be sanctioned for being unable to operate basic rail services. Seeing the engineers refusing to make statements to the police is only demonstrating the coverup. A slight curve and they can't even handle 160kmph? That's a joke. In fact, I'm more shocked to learn that america makes trains that can even go that fast... well, obviously they cannot.
Chinese troll alert!!!!
same story like the spain driver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFGs6hieZg4
just speeding for fun
"why did you do that?"
"because i could ...."
that's it, they'll have to give his job to a robot.
We should. How are we a few years away from self-driving cars but we can't have a robot drive something down and damn track? Oh, that's right, the unions' heads' would explode...
Amtrak is f-ing expensive. $1500 to go from Houston to LA for 2 adults. And that is just sleeping in your goddam seat without a room!
What is the safest railcar in event of a crash? In the rear? Could it be a type of railcar and not a position? Upvotes for real data.
The Amtrak crash is indicative of problems much broader than a mistake by the engineer or other personal operating the train. Over the last 4 decades, Congress has- cut taxes for the wealthy, deregulated financial markets, out-sourced jobs, spent hundreds of billions $ on the failed “war on drugs” and prison system and engaged in $ multi-trillion wars and Wall St. bank bailouts. Meanwhile, Congress is constantly reducing funding to maintain the country’s infrastructure, and plans to cut Amtrack funding 20% to circa $1 billion. To put this in perspective, China is spending over $100 billion next year on rail. We need a massive spending program to upgrade the country’s infrastructure including high speed rail connecting the entire east coast. One word sums up Congress’s response to the daunting social and economic problems confronting the country- “visionless”.