The Daily CSX: Amtrak blames freight train firm CSX for deadly South Carolina crash of southbound Silver Star

By Randall Hill, Reuters; February 4, 2018

CAYCE, S.C. (Reuters) – 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.

In the U.S. passenger rail operator’s third fatal crash in as many months, Amtrak Train 91, carrying nine crew members and 136 passengers, was traveling from New York to Miami when it hit the CSX Corp freight train that was stopped on a side track, or siding, at about 2:35 a.m. (0735 GMT).

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