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The railroad tracks. and there's a sign here, warning trucks to keep away. a crew member on the train had to be hospitalized. witnesses say the truck driver got out in time. >> when the train struck the truck, it was the biggest, loudest boom. >> oh, god. >> reporter: just two days earlier, here it is about to happen again, about an hour west of atlanta. this time, it was a tractor trailer stuck on the tracks. last year, 155 people were killed in these train collisions, including four who died at this railroad crossing in mississippi. there are more than 1,300 of these accidents at railroad cr...

Just bodies laying everywhere on top of one another. >> investigators are saying this accident was preventable. >> we need to find out why it happened to prevent it from happening again. fully operational system could have avoided this accident. that's what it's designed to do. >> a series of amtrak train collisions in recent months and serious concerns about rail safety in our country. we'll be live on the scene of this accident later in this hour. sandra. >> sandra: a potentially big shift in our foreign policy. new reports the u.s. is redeploying forces from iraq to afghanistan. we'll tell ...

We do see in the daytime a great deal of freight trains, there's a big dog food plant up the road that manufacturers dog food and they have rail access. this place where they unload the cars have access. but i have been here my whole life and rarely see an amtrak train. >> and paul, if you would, you said you have been there your whole life and covering this area for 17 years. have there been issues before, like train delays? you said there's never been anything like this before, but other small train collisions in the area? >> very small ones, very small ones. a few weeks ago we had two train...

Heard about the coming around the corner. listening to a media briefing led by amtrak president richard anderson. jo what do we know? >> reporter: pretty big news out of this. tom from nbc news asked a question about positive train control, whether or not it was implemented, and there was a one-word answer, no. and the reason that that is interesting and that matters in this situation is ptc or positive train control here can prevent train collisions, prevent derailment caused by excessive speed. ptc cannot prevent accidents caused by excessive speed or train operator error. we're getting news...

Believe we would get, is no more train-to-train collisions like we've seen before wouldn't see switching errors somebody doesn't realized they're put off on to a different track, trains running up on work crews and not what we saw a couple days ago, which is a train coming too fast into a turn because the computer wouldn't let any of this happen, but this is important -- in terms of train collisions and derailments, this would stop 2% of them. 2%. an important 2% but many more go on and do nothing to deal with people and cashes getting on to the tracks which actually kills hundreds of people e...