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Inside of the passenger cabin was crushed. >> you can actually see the metro link engine pushed inside of the passenger car. it must have been a very traumatic crash. >> friends and relatives rushed to local hospitals. some learning their loved ones were lost. >> one of my uncles is really injured. >> there's no word yet how or why this happened except to note the obvious. there is only one track here, and horribly both trains were on it. >> both trains were on the one track. what happened in that metro link commuter train crash in l.a. in 2008, what happened there was human error. the enginee...

Welcome back to our tour of the rundown. why is it going so fast? that is the question investigators are trying to answer. train 188 was going more than twice as fast as it should have been. speed limit was 50 miles per hour. it was going over 100. let's put the focus on brandon bostian. i spoke to investigator about him in our last hour. >> we really just want to get his first-hand account of what he experienced. that is what we want to find out. we want to make sure we conduct our own interview and do it in a nonthreatening environment for him so he can tell us what he recalls. >> and now fo...

Hour. three seconds later, when the data to the recorders terminated, the train speed was 102 miles per hour. >> a nearby surveillance camera captured what appears to be explosions as the train derailed at 9:21 p.m. six out of seven cars left the tracks and the engine was completely separated from the rest of the train. over 200 of the 243 people on board were taken to area hospitals where many were treated for rib fractures for being tossed by the train's violent motion. nbc news has confirmed the train's engineer was named brandon bostia. he was reportedly injured in the crash and later rele...

Track. you see two lines of track there. in between those two lines of track, there's a little embankment. you can see -- let's see if we can see this that looks like one of the front cars essentially sheered down to a third -- only a third of it -- there are trains on that you can count six cars still laying there. three of them in tact and upright. three of them laying on their sides as trains are operating, moving debris in the crash site. you can imagine a train traveling at a speed the train was traveling. in excess of 100 miles an hour. as it takes the curve, the force is too much to kee...

Car, what did you do then? try to get away from the train, not knowing did it explodes did it catch fire? >> no there were people on my side that were putting pressure on their head where they were bleeding. i heard some screams. they're part of it so i climbed over there, and one guy couldn't feel anything so i -- my heart goes out to him. and i hope he's not paralyzed, the other guy was bleeding a little delirious. he grabbed him, said it's going to be okay at that point you could hear some sirens the first responders are coming you got to relax, got to sit down. once he had that stabilized ...