Amtrak has always been a national joke, but it has become even more of a joke in the past week or so.
Now we have a major crash involving an Amtrak train colliding with a freight train in South Carolina.
Two Amtrak personnel were killed and over 100 others were injured when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a parked CSX freight train early Sunday just outside the capital of South Carolina, officials said.
The South Carolina Emergency Management Division said Amtrak 91 was traveling from New York to Miami when it collided with the CSX train in Cayce around 2:35 a.m.
“We have anywhere from scratches and bumps to more severe broken bones,” Lexington County spokesman Harrison Cahill told reporters.
Amtrak said in a statement the train’s lead engine derailed, as did some passenger cars that was carrying eight crew members and approximately 139 passengers on board. TV footage from the crash scene showed the aftermath of the collision, with the Amtrak engine on its side and its front crumpled.
South Carolina Gov. said the two people killed in the crash were Amtrak personnel and 116 people were taken to area hospitals.
I blame our crumbling infrastructure and an increase in low IQ black and brown people who have been given responsibility to manage it.
As the United States becomes less and less White, you can expect more of these types of things to happen.
