Crash probe keys on trains’ position
From Times Wire Reports
Federal transportation officials were still trying to figure out Saturday why two trains were on the same track at the same time when they collided Friday on Chicago’s South Side.
People were catapulted from their seats when the double-decker Amtrak train traveling to Chicago from Grand Rapids, Mich., crashed into a freight train. Most of the 187 passengers aboard the “Pere Marquette” walked away without major injuries.
The accident sent 71 people to area hospitals but all have since been released.
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