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DUPONT, Wash. (AP) – An Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off an overpass south of Seattle on Monday, killing at least 3 people.
Attention focused on the train’s speed. Federal investigators say the train was traveling at 80 mph in a 30 mph zone.
Bella Dinh-Zarr, an NTSB board member, said at a Monday night news conference that information from the event data recorder in the rear locomotive provided information about the train’s speed.
Dinh-Zarr says it’s not yet known what caused the train to derail and that “it’s too early to tell” why it was going so fast.
There were 80 passengers and five on-duty crew members on board when the train derailed and pulled 13 cars off the tracks.
Commuters and emergency workers alike rushed to help survivors when an Amtrak passenger train derailed south of Seattle and hurtled off an overpass to the busy highway below.
Authorities say 80 passengers and five crew members were on board the train Monday morning when it derailed near DuPont, Washington. Authorities say at least three people were killed.
Military personnel from the nearby Joint Base Lewis-McChord and local authorities worked alongside commuters responding to the derailment.
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