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Distraught. he says bastion has norection of the accident or anything usual. investigators say it's a top priority to sit down with bastion and the rest of the crew to piece together exactly what happened before that train derailed. speed appears to be a factor in tuesday's deadly amtrak accident. >> when the engineer induced brake application was applied. the train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. >> the engineer is identified as 32-year-old brandon bastion of queens new york. his lawyer told abc news he suffered injuries 14 staples in his head and stitches in his leg. he sa...

Bastion two weeks ago and they talked about trains because they're both fans. the person said, quote, the notion that he made it, so to speak, is of no surprise to me, made it driving trains, end quote. bastion's facebook page says he's from memphis, tennessee, but now lives in new york city. the national transportation safety board says today the train was traveling at double the speed limit when the crash occurred killing seven people and injuring more than 200. >> just moments before the derailment, the train was placed the engineer into -- and this means that the engineer applied full emer...

Per hour. when the engineer induced brake application was applied, the train was traveling at approximately 106 miles per hour. >> there were 238 passengers and five crewmembers on board, and some of them used their phones to capture amazing scenes of chaos and survival. >> come on, man. >> i got you, okay? okay? keep crawling, okay? >> here. hold on. here. >> go, go, go, go. >> should i just get out? >> help me? >> yeah. >> meanwhile, authorities have released some of the initial emergency radio transmissions. let's listen to those.

Ahead of qualifying for the indy 500. a little shaken up but he wasn't hurt. in fact, he was behind the wheel later that day. those are some of our top stories on this wednesday, may 14th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> and we begin with the latest on the amtrak crash in philadelphia. that train speeding down the rails at more than 100 miles an hour. >> investigators are saying the engineer should have been going half that speed when it derailed. seven people killed. he claims though the engineer, he has no idea what happened. our coverage begins with wabc's jim dolan in philly...

Bostian's facebook page says he's from memphis, tennessee, but now lives in new york city. the national transportation safety board says today the train was traveling at double the speed limit when the crash occurred killing seven people and injuring more than 200. >> just moments before the derailment, the train was placed the engineer into -- and this means that the engineer applied full emergency -- full emergency brake application. maximum authorized speed through this curve was 50 miles per hour. when the engineer induced brake application, the train wag traveling at approximately 106 mil...