(Source: ABC News, February 5, 2018)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Amtrak copes with having two fatal crashes within five days, its president, Richard Anderson, asserted Monday that the truck driver involved in the first of the pair of accidents hit a train by “trying to drive around a cross-block.” Anderson was referring to a crash on Wednesday, Jan. 31, when an Amtrak train carrying some Republican members of Congress and their families smashed into a garbage truck on the tracks in Crozet, Virginia. One person riding in the truck was killed, while another truck occupant and the driver were injured. Several people on the train suffered minor injuries.
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