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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

AMTRACK TRAIN exceeds 50 MPH speed limit at over 100 MPH

NTSB finds SPEED of train in excess of 100 MPH

PHILADELPHIA, PA--
This is a serious tragedy and a wonder how anyone could obviously exceed that sort of speed restriction resulting in such an accident:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amtrak-crash-train-appears-to-have-hit-curve-going-over-100-mph-2015-05-13?link=MW_home_latest_news

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