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Fatal Amtrak crash in Rhode Island

by Rachel Nixon | March 13, 2008 at 03:37 pm | 666 views | 1 comment
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - An Amtrak express train has struck and killed a worker who was inspecting tracks just outside a train station in downtown Providence, Rhode Island.

Amtrak spokesman Cliff Cole says two other workers were seriously injured when they were hit by a northbound Amtrak Acela train at 1:15 p.m.

2 of the workers are Amtrak employees, while one works for a contractor. No other information was immediately available on the person who was killed.

The injured workers were sent to a hospital.


March 13, 2008 at 03:37 pm by Rachel Nixon, 666 views, 1 comment

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