Train Accidents in the US, Five People Killed

Five of the seven carriages off the track Amtrak in Philadelphia, made the passengers thrown. More than 60 passengers were injured, six in critical condition. (Reuters/Bryan Woolston)

Philadelphia - train accident occurred in Philadelphia, United States, killing five people and wounding dozens of others on Tuesday night (12/5). Amtrak passenger train was reported off the track when driving at high speed.



Reuters reported, this incident made several carriages off the tracks and overturned. Authorities still do not know the cause of the accident, which occurred at 9:30 local time.

At that time there were 238 passengers and five crew on train No. 188 of Washington, D.C., to the New York. Five of the seven carriages, including the engine, out of the path, by Philadelphia mayor Michael Nutter.

Nutter said that, in addition to the five people killed, at least 65 passengers were injured, six in critical condition.

It is estimated that the current train speed between 96-113 km / h when passing the bend.

Passengers describe horror and tense situation when the accident occurred. One of them is Jeremy Wladis who are in the last carriage, said that the strange moving train before it overturned.

Goods, he said, such as phone and laptop flying. "Then people sprawling. There were two people thrown to the luggage rack above me, two women," said Wladis.

Most of the passengers managed to get out by climbing the carriage window. Rescuers had to cut the carriages to extract other passengers are still trapped.

The investigation team was still investigating the cause of this accident. So far, the FBI denied any involvement terrorism or collision with another train.

Some train crash occurred this year in the United States. In March, 21 people were injured when a commuter train crashed into a car in Los Angeles.

A month earlier, 50 people were injured when the Metrolink train crashed into a truck in Los Angeles. In the same month, six people were killed and dozens injured when the Metro North commuter train crashed into the car that was stuck in the middle of the rails.

(CNN Indonesia)