(WBBM NEWSRADIO) - The National Transportation Safety Board is sending a 16-member team to a small town in Missouri to investigate Monday’s Amtrak derailment that left three people dead and dozens of people injured.
Amtrak’s Southwest Chief Train 4 was on its way from Los Angeles to Chicago when it slammed into a dump truck in Mendon, Missouri. There were no warning signals or railroad gates at the crossing. After the incident, Boy Scouts and leaders from Appleton, Wisconsin, who were on the train and were unhurt, began offering help to others.
“We had a number of kids with some injuries. The one scout stayed with the truck driver and got him some water and comforted him,” said Scoutmaster Dan Skrypczak, who was not on the train.
Passenger Rob Nightengale was on his way to Chicago and posted videos afterwards on social media.
The truck driver died while the scout was giving him aid. There were more than 200 passengers and more than dozen crew members aboard when the collision happened.
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