Amtrak train collision in Cayce, South Carolina results in fatalities and numerous injuries

Sunday morning at approximately 2:30 a.m. ET, an Amtrak passenger train collided with a CSX Corp. freight train outside Columbia, S.C., in Cayce, S.C. Two Amtrak employees, the engineer and the conductor, have been reported killed in the collision. There are reports of over a hundred passengers being taken to area hospitals with injuries ranging from scratches and bruises to severely broken bones. According to Gov. McMaster, it appeared that the CSX freight train was stopped on the track it was supposed to be on but that the Amtrak was on the wrong track at the time of the collision. This railroad accident follows the Amtrak railway accident last Wednesday in Virginia, when a chartered Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress slammed into a garbage truck. It also follows the derailment of an Amtrak train near Tacoma, Washington, in December.