(Source: Reuters, January 4, 2018)
CAYCE, S.C. — Amtrak blamed a freight rail operator for causing a crash on Sunday that killed two people and injured more than 100 others when one of its passenger trains was diverted onto a side track and slammed into a parked, unmanned freight train in South Carolina. “CSX had lined and padlocked the switch off the mainline to the siding, causing the collision,” Amtrak President and Chief Executive Richard Anderson said in a statement.
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