NTSB to release documents in Amtrak crash investigation
Passengers on an Amtrak train bound for NY had a bumpy ride Sunday when a mysterious object struck the train, leaving a hole in at least one window. The object struck a window of the Acela Express No. 2222 just before 7 p.m. Sunday in the Bridesburg section of Philadelphia, just north of the city. “Like really hard and strong and loud”, passenger Taylor Lorenz, 30, of Park Slope told CBS2 in an exclusive interview. There are no reported injuries to passengers or crew members.
She said Amtrak police came on board to investigate when the train stopped at the Metropark station in New Jersey.
“He said that it looked like something like that had happened before”, Lorenz said.
National Transportation Safety Board officials are expected today to release more than 2,000 pages of documents and evidence relating to last May’s deadly derailment of Amtrak 188 in Frankford. Other trains in the vicinity of Frankfort Junction reported being hit by rocks that evening not long before the derailment.
The train halted for a time to permit investigation of what Amtrak spokeswoman Kimberly D. Woods said was “an incident of objects being thrown”.
Eight people were killed when the speeding train entered a bend in the track that had a limit of 50 miles per hour.
The train originated in Washington and arrived in NY around 8 p.m.