Published: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 @ 1:57 PMUpdated: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 @ 1:55 PMBy: The Associated Press
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DUPONT, Wash. — The Latest on an Amtrak alternation derailment in Washington accompaniment (all times local):
4:40 p.m.
The blitz to barrage alternation account on a new, faster Amtrak avenue abreast Seattle came at a baleful cost: none of the speed-control technology that could've prevented a derailment was active.
Work to install GPS-based technology accepted as absolute alternation ascendancy isn't accepted to be completed on the 15-mile amount breadth the alternation batty until at atomic abutting spring.
The alternation was activity 80 mph in a 30 mph breadth Monday back it ran off the balustrade on a ambit abreast a highway. Experts say absolute alternation ascendancy arrangement could accept detected the celerity and automatically activated the brakes.
Amtrak and the Washington Department of Transportation did not anon acknowledge to letters about why they launched the account while the technology was still months away.
Railroads are beneath government orders to install absolute alternation ascendancy by the end of 2018.
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3:50 p.m.
U.S. board say basic advice indicates that the emergency anchor on the Amtrak alternation that batty in Washington accompaniment went off automatically.
National Transportation Assurance Board affiliate Bella Dinh-Zarr told reporters Tuesday that the anchor was not manually activated by the engineer.
She says they're reviewing the accident abstracts recorder from the advance adaptable afterwards accepting already retrieved the accessory from the rear engine, which showed the alternation was activity 80 mph in a 30 mph zone.
Dinh-Zarr accepted two bodies were in the cab: the architect and a aqueduct who was training.
Federal admiral additionally say the architect had been able to accomplish the alternation in the breadth in the aftermost brace of weeks, but the NTSB is attractive into the process.
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2 p.m.
Critical assurance technology advised to automatically apathetic or stop trains that are activity too fast was not alive on a area of clue alfresco of Seattle breadth an Amtrak alternation derailed, killing three people.
Sound Alteration said Tuesday that the aggregation was on agenda to accept absolute alternation ascendancy installed and operational in the spring, advanced of a December 2018 federal deadline.
The arrangement would be able to booty over ascendancy of a alternation back an architect is absent or incapacitated.
Sound Alteration agent Geoff Patrick said the "vast majority" of accessories bare had been installed but not absolutely operational forth the advance and trains in the 14.5-mile (23.3-kilometer) area of band breadth the derailment occurred.
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11:30 a.m.
A about says a abuse apostle is one of the three bodies dead in the baleful Amtrak derailment in Washington state.
Rachel Topper said Tuesday that she has been notified of the afterlife of her uncle Jim Hamre in Monday's crash. Topper said the ancestors has no added comment.
In a Facebook post, she said they were crestfallen and that Hamre will be absent by many.
Lloyd Flem, controlling administrator of abuse advancement alignment All Aboard Washington, says Hamre retired a few years ago as a civilian architect at the Washington Transportation Department. He says Hamre lived with his mother in Puyallup.
Another abuse advocate, Zack Willhoite, additionally died back the alternation plunged off an bypass and assimilate Interstate 5 south of Seattle on Monday. The alternation was authoritative its aboriginal run on faster route.
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11:25 a.m.
Authorities say they're starting to move alternation cars that batty alfresco Seattle and hurtled assimilate a artery below, killing three people.
Capt. Dan Hall with the Washington Accompaniment Patrol says the cars will be loaded assimilate trucks starting Tuesday and taken to a defended ability as the National Transportation Assurance Board investigates.
State Transportation Department agent Travis Phelps says Interstate 5 will be bankrupt through Tuesday night and could be shut bottomward for several canicule as admiral accomplishment the analysis at the scene.
He says the abutting footfall is assessing the bypass and the alley below.
The Amtrak alternation batty during its countdown run forth a new faster route. U.S. board say they haven't bent a account of the blast but appear that the alternation was traveling 80 mph in a 30 mph zone.
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10:35 a.m.
A U.S. official says board are analytical whether an Amtrak architect was absent back a celerity alternation derailed, killing three bodies and sending several abuse cars aerial off an overpass.
The official said Tuesday that in accession to the engineer, there was addition agent training in the train's cab Monday.
The official says board are attractive into whether the architect absent "situational awareness."
The official wasn't accustomed to altercate the amount about and batten to The Associated Press on action of anonymity.
Audio celerity in which a aggregation affiliate discusses injuries to the architect mentions a additional being in the advanced of the train, who was additionally hurt.
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9:14 a.m.
A victim in the baleful Amtrak derailment in Washington accompaniment has been articular as an agent of a bounded alteration bureau and a abuse advocate.
Pierce Alteration appear a account adage that Zack Willhoite, a chump account abutment specialist, was dead in Monday's derailment.
Authorities say three bodies died and dozens were afflicted back the alternation plunged off an bypass over Interstate 5 south of Seattle. The alternation was authoritative its countdown run.
Pierce Alteration says Willhoite was "admired by his colleagues."
Lloyd Flem, controlling administrator of All Aboard Washington, says Willhoite was a abuse apostle and it was a accustomed that he would be on the trip.
Federal board say they haven't bent a account of the derailment but appear that the alternation was travelling 80 mph in a 30 mph zone.
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8:35 a.m.
Crews accept removed alternation cars complex in a baleful Amtrak derailment from a railway bypass in Washington state.
Authorities say there are three accepted deaths. Dozens were injured.
The alternation cars were loaded Tuesday assimilate flatbed trucks and drive abroad on Interstate 5.
Authorities say a absolute of 13 alternation cars jumped the advance aboriginal Monday south of Seattle.
The Amtrak alternation careened off the bypass aloft Interstate 5 during its countdown run forth a new bypass route. The alternation agitated 85 cartage and aggregation members.
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Federal board say they haven't bent a account of the derailment but appear backward Monday that the alternation was travelling 80 mph in a 30 mph zone. Board are on the scene.
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