More Than 100 Injured In Fatal Amtrak And Freight Train Collision

A locked switch is being blamed for the collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a freight train that killed two people and injured more than 100 others in South Carolina early on Sunday. The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said a switch on the tracks, which the freight hauler CSX Corp. owns and operates, was padlocked in a position that steered the Amtrak train onto a siding near Columbia, S.C., where it crashed into a parked, unoccupied CXS train. “Key to this investigation is learning why the switch was lined that way,” Robert Sumwalt, the chairman NTSB officials were not immediately available to elaborate.