Amtrak train crash: Train 188 may have been hit by unknown projectile before fatal derailment
Originally published on 18 May, 2015
PHILADELPHIA — National Transportation Safety Board officials have asked the FBI to help investigate a report that a projectile may have hit an Amtrak commuter train before it crashed in Philadelphia last week, according to a New York Times report.
Following interviews with two assistant conductors aboard the train, officials revealed a projectile may have hit Amtrak Train 188 before it derailed last Tuesday and described a circular fracture pattern on the lower left corner of the train's windshield.
Two other trains are believed to have been struck within five miles and twenty minutes of the deadly crash in unrelated incidents, according to a Philadelphia magazine report citing mayor Michael Nutter.
The windshield of a SEPTA regional commuter train is believed to have been shattered after it was "hit by a rock or shot at," according to transportation safety board official Robert Sumwalt, citing the interviews.
A projectile also shattered the passenger-side window of an Amtrak Acela train, traveling down the same corridor.
Thick glass on the windshields of modern trains are built to withstand the force of even a cinder block, according to the Times.
Amtrak officials say full service will resume along the Northeast corridor on Monday, six days after the crash took the lives of eight people and injured over 200 others.
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