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A look at recent Amtrak derailment­s and other crashes

- By The Associated Press

An Amtrak passenger train struck a dump truck Monday at an uncontroll­ed crossing in a rural area of Missouri killing two people on the train and one in the truck. Others were injured. The crash happened just after noon near Mendon, Missouri. Several cars derailed. The train was traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago. The crash came a day after three people were killed when an Amtrak train smashed into a car in California killing three people in the vehicle.

Other recent Amtrak accidents:

• June 26, 2022:

Three people in a car were killed when an Amtrak commuter train smashed into their vehicle in Northern California. No one in the train was injured.

Three

• Sept. 26, 2021:

recess. The committee had said last week that there would be no more hearings until July.

The precise subject of Tuesday's hearing remained unclear, but the panel's announceme­nt Monday said it would be “to present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony.” A spokesman for the panel declined to elaborate and Hutchinson's lawyer did not immediatel­y respond to emails seeking comment.

The person familiar with the committee's plans to call Hutchinson could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

The nine-member committee's investigat­ion has continued during the hearings, which started three weeks ago into the attack by Trump supporters. Among the evidence, the committee recently obtained footage of Trump and his inner circle taken both before and after Jan. 6 from British filmmaker Alex Holder.

Holder said last week that he had complied with a congressio­nal subpoena to turn over all the footage he shot in the final weeks of Trump's 2020 reelection campaign, including exclusive interviews with Trump, his children and then-vice President Mike Pence. people died and others were injured when an Amtrak derailed in northcentr­al Montana as it traveled from Chicago to Seattle.

Three people were killed and 10 seriously injured in a derailment near Olympia, Washington, in which part of the train landed on

• Dec. 18, 2017:

Interstate 5. The train was traveling more than 80 mph during its inaugural run of a newly opened, faster rail line when it left the tracks.

• April 3, 2016:

Two maintenanc­e workers were struck and killed by train going more than 100 mph in Chester, Pennsylvan­ia. The lead engine of the train derailed.

A train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago derailed in southwest Kansas, injuring at least 32 people. Investigat­ors concluded a cattle feed delivery truck hit the track and shifted it at least a foot before the derailment.

A train headed from Vermont

• March 14, 2016: • Oct. 5, 2015:

to Washington, D.C., derailed when it hit rocks that had fallen onto the track from a ledge. Seven people were injured.

• May 12, 2015:

A train traveling at twice the 50 mph speed limit derailed as it entered a sharp curve in Philadelph­ia. Eight people were killed and more than 200 were injured.

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