An Editorial From The Baltimore Sun; February 1, 2018
The Republican members of Congress on board the Amtrak train that struck a garbage truck in rural Crozet, Va, Wednesday can be forgiven for feeling rattled and unsettled. That’s particularly true for passengers like Sen. Jeff Flake, who just last June assisted victims of the GOP baseball practice shooting and found himself back in the thick of it. He and a number of medical professionals in the delegation had to spring into action to help the injured at the scene. Given that they were headed to a political strategy retreat at the Greenbrier resort, surely the last thing members, their staff and their families expected was to be in a rail crossing collision that left one person, a passenger in the truck, dead and others injured.
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