Daily Mail published this video item, entitled “Investigators search for cause of Montana Amtrak train derailment” – below is their description.
A safety expert has suggested an Amtrak train in Montana fishtailed after hitting a fork in the tracks causing it to derail killing three and injuring 50. Railroad safety expert David Clarke said the latter carriages could have derailed and flipped after the fork in the line on the route between Chicago and Seattle. Did the switch play some role? It might have been that the front of the train hit the switch and started fish-tailing and that flipped the back part of the train,’ Clarke said. Eight cars out of the 10 cars on Amtrak’s Empire Builder 7/27 train derailed as it carried 141 passengers and 16 crew members on Saturday, according to the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office. At least two train cars separated and slid down a 30 foot embankment, and police confirmed that three passengers onboard died. Five passengers were still in hospital on Sunday evening, but were in a stable condition.
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