WASHINGTON, DC (WJZ) –Eight people killed, 200 injured. — the human toll of last month’s deadly Amtrak crash in Philadelphia.
Now the National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report on the accident.
Alex DeMetrick has the details of the report’s early findings and a congressional probe of the crash.
This the standard procedure for NTSB and it addresses what is know for certain about the wreck.
NTSB investigators were at the crash site within hours of the derailment.
Three weeks lager they have issued a preliminary report, much of it based on the data recorded aboard the Amtrak train.
The findings — speed causes the derailment, 106 miles per hour in a curve rated at 50 miles per hour.
It found breaks, signals and other mechanical functions working properly.
It also found the engineer had been using his cell phone earlier in the day, but it is still investigating its use at the time of the crash.
Investigators have still to determine if the engine’s windshield damage was the result of vandalism or the crash itself.
It was one if the worst crashes in Amtrak’s history and Tuesday triggered a congressional investigation.
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