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The Latest on Amtrak crash: AP analysis shows train speeding

By The Associated Press 20 minutes ag

2:30 p.m.

An analysis by The Associated Press of surveillance video just before the deadly crash of an Amtrak train in Philadelphia indicates it was traveling about 107 miles per hour as it approached a curve where the speed limit was 50 miles per hour.

The video shows the train — which was roughly 662 feet long — passes the camera in just over five seconds. But AP found that the surveillance video plays back slightly slower than in real time.

So, adjusting for the slower playback puts the train's estimated speed at 107 miles per hour. The surveillance camera was located at a site just before the bend in the tracks.

The crash killed seven people and injured more than 200.

 

 



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I'm no train expert, but that seems a bit fast.

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FNW wrote:

I'm no train expert, but that seems a bit fast.

Good grief. He was 57 mph over the posted speed limit for that curve!

What a terrible mistake.cry 

Those poor people. I heard on the news, the death toll is up to 7.cry



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oh wow. I wonder why he was going so fast? I wonder if the breaks were out? I understand the tracks are the problem, even with the Acela. Trains built to go fast, but track is old and not up to modern standards.

I rode the bullet train in Japan and it went so fast I couldn't see anything out the window.

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oh wow. I wonder why he was going so fast? I wonder if the breaks were out? I understand the tracks are the problem, even with the Acela. Trains built to go fast, but track is old and not up to modern standards.

I rode the bullet train in Japan and it went so fast I couldn't see anything out the window.

Hopefully the investigation will come up with some answers, FNW.

This accident sounds like human error, to me.

How very sad.cry 



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It is sad. And scary. I hope the engineer wasn't at fault, but it does look like it's a strong probability so far.

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