Three people have been killed and at least 50 injured when an Amtrak train carrying 275 people derailed after hitting a dump truck in Kansas City, Missouri on Monday.
Lt Eric Brown of the Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a press conference that at least three people had died, two of whom were on the train and one of whom was in the truck.
The force of the accident caused the train to derail in the town of Mendon around 12:42pm on Monday, according to Amtrak.
The company, which confirmed 275 passengers and 12 crew members were on board the intercity train, said it is “deeply saddened” to learn about the deaths of three people, two passengers and the truck driver.
The National Transportatation Safety Board (NTSB) are leading the investigation into the Amtrak derailment near Mendon, Missouri, and were expected to have investigators at the scene on Tuesday,.
A farmer who warned authorities and other Missouri residents of the apparent dangers of the railroad crossing where an Amtrak train derailed on Monday has said it was “a matter of time” before such an incident occurred.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has said it will send a 16-member "go team" to investigate the derailment of an Amtrak train near Mendon, Missouri on Monday.
In a news conference on Monday, NTSB chairwoman Jennifer Homendy, who will be part of the team, said the agency is requesting speed data from along the route and on-board recorder logs and camera footage from the train.
“"We are requesting information [from] any sort of forward facing or internal facing cameras – that way we can see what was in front of the train or what was going inside on inside the locomotive – as well as any other recorder information that could be provided on the speed of the train at the time of the derailment.
A farmer who says he passes the same railroad crossing where an Amtrak train crashed on Monday in northern Missouri has said he issued a warning on Facebook earlier this month about its safety.
In a video uploaded to Facebook on 11 June, Mr Spencer said overgrown grass and limited signal lighting were an issue at the crossing, where three people were killed and 50 more injured when an Amtrak train hit a dump truck.
The previous month, a train travelling the same route as Monday's service, in the other direction from Los Angeles to Chicago, derailed and injured 32 people after a cattle feed delivery truck bumped into the track and pushed the rails out of alignment.
The worst in recent years came in May 2015, when eight people died and more than 200 injured because the train had taken a curve with a speed limit of 50 mph at twice that speed.
A worker inspects a derailed Amtrak train near Mendon, Missouri, on Monday 27 June 2022.
A worker inspects the remains of a dump truck hit by an Amtrak train near Mendon, Missouri on Monday 27 June 2022.
Workers inspect a derailed Amtrak train near Mendon, Missouri, on Monday 27 June 2022.
"We are requesting information [from] any sort of forward facing or internal facing cameras – that way we can see what was in front of the train or what was going inside on inside the locomotive – as well as any other recorder information that could be provided on the speed of the train at the time of the derailment?
A worker inspects a derailed Amtrak train near Mendon, Missouri, on Monday 27 June 2022
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