Train in Philadelphia surpassed 100 mph on 50-mph curve, officials say
PHILADELPHIA — The Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia,
killing at least seven people, was hurtling at more than 100 mph before
it ran off the rails along a sharp curve where the speed limit is just
50 mph, federal investigators said Wednesday. The engineer at the
controls refused to give a statement to authorities and left a police
precinct with a lawyer, police said. More than 200 people were injured
in the derailment that plunged screaming passengers into darkness and
chaos Tuesday night. It was the nation’s deadliest train accident in
nearly seven years.http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/national_world/2015/05/13/0513-philadelphia-train-folo.html
