We don t know what happened. there are reports it went around the bend and people heard a shake and felt things i took a train into work. you don t have a seat belt you have depending on which seat one seat in front of you. and behind you. if a train does derail it jostles you around. and depending on the speed of the train, impact of what happened, it could throw you all over the train. not only do you have you being thrown around but all passengers, 243 people on board, five believed to be employees. then you have all of the stuff. suitcases bags coffee is going all over we ve seen some photos on twitter of people s legs being badly damaged.
Walked us to a certain area for people who could walk. i was in my car. people were getting out. looking further up into the business class there weren t as many drivers coming out of it. so there were people i guess on the side car that were also fine but took a while. so there is a mix of people. some people are relatively okay. and people who are covered in blood. currently i m at a hospital right now. they said some of the people who are not as injured to hospitals and might go to another. let me take you back to if you what time did you get on the train? around 9:08. in philadelphia? yes. how long after that did the train crash? i mean it wasn t checking the time but only maybe ten minutes
Vehicle or thing that this train slid into there s a lot of action going around there with flashlights. it is an understandable question because there are a lot of areas of wrecked cars and abandoned vehicles almost looking like a scrap yard of sorts, i travelled that route on many occasions, on the northeast corridor and so it is understandable that you wouldn t be able to tell whether it was necessary part of the action scene or just wrecked vehicles that have been there for weeks, months even year ss. i can tell you, if this is what we think in terms of the amtrak run, if we re coming in from the direction of new york. the train should not have been traveling at all at that high rate of speed. there are multiple stops there, as you head into 30th street station, again, i don t want to get too far ahead of myself. in theory this was toward the
The train struck another freight train car. ntsb is trying to knock that down. they re not denying it. but they re trying to kind of spear people into different directions because there is nothing visible. csx came out earlier and said to their knowledge, none of the cars were involved in a crash. speed limits from 50-over 50 miles per hour to possibly up to 65 to 70 miles per hour. this is not the fast train going from washington, d.c. to new york. so the speed here appears to be lower than some commuters who regularly take those trains back and north from new york down to the nation s capital. if 50 plus miles per hour if this derails, you can clearly see there would be extraordinary damage. this is a snap shot from wtxf kind of teetering. one car teetering on the edge.
Front of us. were you in the third car? about the third car. so before the train shifted to the right, did you feel like it was going fast? did you feel did you have instinct it was going too fast? i mean it felt like a regular amtrak kind of thing. okay. and in terms of the condition of the victims on the scene? what did you observe? there were people that were very injured and people just had covered p dust some dust and cuts. some people have broken arms. i was with the crew that got
Right now that that happened. there is no word on how this happened i know trains are set up the same way. so first couple cars are the quiet or business cars then after that dining cars car followed by a number of coach cars coach, coach, coach, after that. no word on exactly which of the front trains those train passengers there, were involved in that. we do know five have been confirmed dead. 243 individuals on the train, seven deceased, like i said. seven cars, including engine were damaged. some saying they ve never seen an accident like this. trace can you give us the
That is very much the case as you can see, they re relying to some extent on the lights of the helicopters, which we believe are news choppers and we do not know what the status is of the emergency vehicles and whether it s even possible for them to get anywhere near what we re told is not a residential area but a formerly industrial area. we are getting a lot of tweets sent out by the folks on the train. she s okay she does not believe the quiet car is looking good. she believes that was toward the front of the train. and this is all speculation at this point because we don t know which car is which. this is coming from folks on board the train describing the chaos, as smoke filled the train. several people were hurts. some people saying they saw
That was going beavers had built a dam on a river, it was not a large river. and that ran across the track that washed the bridge away the train ran off the bridge. so you have all kinds of possibilities here. and until we can get evidence that we can put our hands on we re not going to know very much. very morning we ll have more capability to get on site i believe. sounds like that can be a handful if not more possibilities of what could happen here. that is why authorities are not willing to speculate at this point on what happened. now, you, talk a little bit about your experience in things on these train crashes how many have you seen? being there with the national transportation safety board and how severe is this one compared to ones you ve seen? i was on three major train crashes
Again, search all sides of the track. make sure no one is unaccounted for at this point that they ve gotten to every particular area they could. you can see them lighting up the area down the blood here on wheatsheaf, too. this is a daunting task. you talked about flashlights on the scene. operating with rail cars overturned and all kinds of things people in a panicked situation there. takes level heads to be able to get there and make sure you re getting to everybody that you can. so you can make sure you get everybody out of the train z people that need attention get it as quickly as possible. it s a windy night here too. you re lucky ke we did not get rain showers and thunderstorms. that would have made this worse but again, personnel here lots of equipment here folks really
please keep the passengers and all emergency personnel in your thoughts. we do not know whether there was a crash from this train into another train, or whether that first car went off of the tracks perhaps at a high speed and simply crashed into the freight train on the neighboring track. we don t know yet, but we are being told the police and firefighters are helping people in the ambulances on the scene, describing some as walking wounded. can you see the ambulance right there, leaving the scene. some of our viewers are sending us tweets as well. one asking a good question where are the fire trucks shining lights on the scene. it seems impossible that they are at the mercy of the simple handheld devices of the firefighters there to rescue those wounded and trapped.