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May have been in this truck that this train hit, that this train crashed into. here's a quote from the congressman. there was, it looks like, a tractor trailer carrying trash that was hit by the train. i don't know that that crossing had guardrails or anything like that. i'm in the third car, is what he said, but all we felt was a very loud crash, and the truck is -- i'm looking at it right now. it's on its side. there's trash strewn everywhere. not really hearing definitively, but i'm hearing there are injuries for people in the truck. i think everyone on the train is okay. i don't know that ...

Somber mood about what happened and, again, we saw and have heard stories about some of the doctors including senator kennedy and congressman winstrop who are trained medical professionals prior to their careers as lawmakers but jumped off the train as soon as they were allowed by the capitol police and amtrak authorities to help some of the folks in this truck that the train hit and where the people were the most injured. we do not know for sure the condition of the other two. the latest word from the albemarle authorities is there are three injuries, but -- three serious injuries and there's...

Were taken off the train track. or off the train and transported to local hospitals. i want to give you the detail that i'm now getting. this is an incident update if you will on that amtrak train that came into contact with the truck that was on the tracks. a little bit more than two hours ago. 11:20 east coast time. crozet, virginia, just outside by about 12 to 15 miles, charlottesville. two amtrak crew members and two passengers were transported to a local hospital. we're told with minor injuries. but they were taken off that train. that is in addition to the three people that we know were ...

Help those people who had been hurt in the dump truck that the train hit on the tracks. if you were just joining us, let's do a quick reset now of what has happened. because there are more facts to collect and we want to fold those in. so it's been about two and a half hours now by my count that a train traveling upwards of 70 miles per hour according to people, witnesses on board the train. hit a dump truck, which you see the remnants of in the center of your screen there, center left, and that truck split. the people inside the truck were very hurt. one of them has perished today. the doctor...

Actually in journalism school. i was talking with them a little bit. your name, again, was julianne? >> yeah, i'm julianne. >> reporter: you told me that one of your friend's moms lives near there. tell us what you know. >> well, right after the train in crozet happened, my friend was showing snap chats from her mom, showing where the train hit and showing paramedics come in ten minutes after it happened. >> reporter: did she say what she saw in terms -- we heard there was one fatality, possibly the driver of the truck. did she say what she saw in terms of the injuries of people and what was t...