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He worked at the today slow for 20 years, he was one of four people killed that morning in that train crash. it's a miracle that you more than four people didn't die. unlike the l.a. crash that had happened five years earlier, this one was one train crashing, it didn't hit anything. it was one train derailment, there are erie similarities between that metro north crash and what happened in philly. the train was the same size in l.a. and philly. it's a single train that doesn't appear to have hit anything else. but the trains derailed. both of these derailments happened on sharp curves in the t...

Embedded in that embankment there. it's not surprising that we have the level of injury and fatality you have. in some ways, it's remarkable 1t"re were not more. because that is an incredibly short bit of ground to go from 100 miles an hour, to zero miles an hour, which is it what -- precisely what that train did just in the little -- you can see the few yards from the beginning of the curve to where that impact is. the last car looks like it stayed on the rail entirely. you have to imagine that the fatalities here that took the full brunt of !juu((u you can see right there, you can see how ag...

The speed, we've seen the read out. can you make a lot more sense of the physics, the crash. you can see here how the ties were essentially bent off -- the rails were bent off of the ties by the sheer force of the speed and the weight of that train, essentially lifting the rails up and off the ties there. it really must have felt like the end of the world inside that train. the thing we're looking at right there, that used to be a train. it is unbelievable that there's not more casualties.

You have to imagine that the fatalities here that took the full brunt of the impact. you can see right there, you can see how again, now that we know the speed, we've seen the read out. can you make a lot more sense of the physics, the crash. you can see here how the ties were essentially bent off -- the rails were bent off of the ties by the sheer force of the speed and the weight of that train, essentially lifting the rails up and off the ties there. it really must have felt like the end of the world inside that

>> 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 engineer who was operating that commuter train mis...