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Faces and people were really injured. they were thrown out of their seats. >> a lot of people coming together to help out on this this morning after they started to sort through evidence. they will be using the social media accounts and witness statements to peaceiece together the entire event. >> 20 amtrak derailments last year. according to the railroad administration there were more than 1700 train accidents in 2014 total which were not amtrak trains. some were champs in february a commuter train slamming into an abandoned truck in california. a train engineer died and 28 ears injured. in 2...

Crashes is they'll sometimes surprise you. the cause will sometimes surprise you. back in '96, there was a new jersey transit train that ran a red signal and they figured that the engineer who had this odd overnight shift probably fell asleep everyone thought, we should have these guys working fewer hours. the national transportation safety board went through the dead engineer's medicine cabinet. he was killed a couple passengers were killed hundreds were injured. they went through his medicine cabinet and found diabetes medicine in it and they went to see his doctor and said how could he poss...

Black box. and cnn has learned investigators are seriously considering whether excessive speed could have caused the accident. the amtrak train is believed to have been traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour as it approached a turn where the speed limit was 50. according to a source briefed by investigators. one passenger tells cnn, the train did appear to pick up speed right before the jolt. >> it felt like we sped up a little bit at first as if we were almost going around a curve. >> reporter: ntsb investigators will also study the condition of the track, the train, and, quote, human perf...

Of them happening recently. this tragedy in philadelphia is one commuter rail to make headlines recently around the world. let's walk you through some of them. take a look at this. this was the scene just last monday in mexico city near the international airport after two metro trains collided. an investigation there found that quote, double human error on the part of the train operator caused that crash that left at least 12 people injured. back here at home we all remember this from february 24th i should say, in austin california when a commuter train collided a train engineer later died fr...

Of harm's way. >> he was stunned. >> i was like, holy cow, this just happened. >> his father is on the other side of the tracks and checks on the truck driver. >> i seen the truck driver and i asked him if he was okay. he said he was okay. he didn't have a lot to say at the time. i reckon he was trying to figure out what happened. >> the train engineer is also unharmed. the heart-stopping incident doesn't stop him from watching trains with his dad and recording them. >> to this day, i'm still videoing trains. i've always enjoyed doing it and it's the only one i've ever seen where something bad...