“Those are fairly new train cars, they have been engineered to be crash resistant,” @KrisVanCleave reports of Amtrak #501 that derailed in Washington state this morning http://cbsn.ws/2oDNSu5 pic.twitter.com/9z7E0hOFIk
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“[Investigators] are going to recover the black box, and the video recorders. They should be able to analyze those fairly quickly here,”
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@Amtrak advises those with questions about family and friends on train 501, which derailed in Washington state, to call support number http://cbsn.ws/2oDNSu5 pic.twitter.com/2oo7dNgWvz
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Inward-facing cameras were added “after Amtrak #188 [crashed], because one of the big unanswered questions from that crash was what was happening inside of the train cabin?"
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“We suddenly had to go from 60 mph down to zero as fast as possible... And there was the passenger train hanging from the overpass, and on the freeway. Very scary stuff,” Greg Mukai, who was driving on I-5 during train derailment, says http://cbsn.ws/2oDNSu5 pic.twitter.com/1KdEZfdNe0
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Washington state Amtrak derailment: -Total of 77 patients being transported to hospitals in Pierce, Thurston counties -4 considered level red patients with most severe injuries Follow here for updates:http://cbsn.ws/2oDNSu5
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@Amtrak statement on train 501 derailment in Washington: "Emergency services are on the scene and Amtrak management is responding. Some injuries are reported.” http://cbsn.ws/2oDNSu5 pic.twitter.com/1wLoxfcbCX
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NTSB did a report a month or so ago, which demonstrated that "they believe Amtrak has a safety culture problem,” Former NTSB Chair Rosenker says http://cbsn.ws/2oDNSu5 pic.twitter.com/zjNxxLzV15
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NEW: NTSB says it's launching a team to investigate Amtrak passenger train derailment in Washington. http://cbsn.ws/2oDNSu5 pic.twitter.com/gYAwVdhC2T
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Too much opportunity for human error when moving a large amount of other humans. Shitty infrastructure.
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Thoughts and prayers to the victims but no
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Here we go blame the driver... Like they did Capt. Sully...
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Was the design of this newly opened fast section of track engineered correctly?
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Look at the electronics. Could the controls be hacked?
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it saddens me
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