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Amtrak train collides with CSX freight train in SC

Two Trains Collide in South Carolina
By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Feb 4, 2018

At least two people are confirmed dead and more than 110 people injured when a passenger train traveling through South Carolina collided with a freight train early Sunday. Amtrak train No. 91 was carrying 139 passengers and eight crew members from New York to Miami when it slammed into a CSX train and derailed.

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