The Latest On The Amtrak Train Derailment

On Tuesday, a NYC bound Amtrak train derailed in Philadelphia, killing eight and injuring over 200.

Liberals were quick to fulfill the age-old philosophy, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” They hastily blamed the crash on the GOP because– you guessed it­– lack of infrastructure spending. Too bad Amtrak actually received $1.3 billion from Obama’s 2009 stimulus. To top it off, we found out that Amtrak spends 83 percent of its revenue on employee salaries and bonuses.

Some how, all of that is the GOP’s fault.

Nevertheless, facts came out showing that the train accelerated to 100 mph in a 50 mph zone. The Democrats never apologized for blaming the tragedy on the GOP.

Still, questions surrounding the circumstances of the deadly crash remain. The Amtrak engineer driving the train claims to have no memory of what happened prior to the crash, and some suspect that the train was hit by some sort of object moments before.

Reuters reports–

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was called in to examine a remnant of the Amtrak locomotive's shattered windshield with a circular damage pattern, Sumwalt said.

 

 

The revelation that Amtrak train No. 188 might have been struck by a bullet, rock or other object added an unexpected twist to a crash probe that initially focused on why the train had accelerated to over 100 miles per hour (160 km per hour) in the minute before it barreled into a curved track segment where the authorized speed limit was just 50 mph (80 kph).

 

 

An assistant conductor told NTSB investigators on Friday that the train run that day had been unremarkable until a few minutes after pulling out of Philadelphia's 30th Street station, the last stop before the accident, Sumwalt said.

 

 

At that point, she heard the engineer, 32-year-old Brandon Bostian, talking by radio with the driver of another train from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).
 

 

The other driver, according to her account, said he had reported to a train dispatcher that his windshield had been cracked by a projectile that he believed was either fired from a gun or thrown at his train, and that he had made an emergency stop as a result, Sumwalt said.

 

 

The conductor told investigators that Bostian then replied that he believed his own New York-bound Amtrak train had been similarly struck, Sumwalt said.

 

 

It was moments later that the Amtrak train began to round the curved section of track at twice the authorized speed and derailed in the city's Port Richmond neighborhood along the Delaware River, according to her account.

There are still a lot of questions, but we can all learn a valuable lesson from the left. Don’t run your mouth until you have all the facts.