Incorrect information from CSX employee led to Sunday’s fatal crash of Amtrak’s southbound Silver Star

By Will Robinson, Reporter, Jacksonville Business Journal; February 6, 2018

Incorrect information from a CSX Corp. employee at the site of Sunday’s deadly Amtrak train crash led to the accident, according to CSX records and a source.

A signal system that would have warned the Amtrak train that it was being sent onto the wrong track was shut off at the time of a crash Sunday that killed two people — including Orange Park resident Michael Cella — and injured 116.The system in the area was being upgraded and the signals were shut down as of 8 a.m. Saturday, according to CSX documents obtained by the Jacksonville Business Journal.

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