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U.S. NEWS Thursday 1 February 2018
Train carrying GOP lawmakers hits truck, 1 on truck killed

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Cole said he felt “a tre-
mendous jolt” when the
accident occurred, nearly
two hours after the train left
Washington headed to the
Greenbrier resort in White
Sulphur Springs, West Vir-
ginia.
Amtrak spokeswoman Beth
Toll said two crew members
and two passengers were
taken to a local hospital
with minor injuries after the
incident, which happened
about 11:20 a.m. in Crozet,
Virginia, about 15 miles (25
kilometers) west of Charlot-
tesville. Alex Prevost, a Uni-
versity of Virginia health sys-
tem spokesman, said it had
received three patients
and two more were on the
way. He could not confirm
a fatality.
Albemarle County police
spokeswoman Madeline
Curott also would not con-
firm a fatality but said three
people on the truck were This photo provided by Rep. Greg Walden, R-Oregon, shows a crash site near Crozet, Va., Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018.
seriously injured. Associated Press
Minnesota Rep. Jason Lew- he told AM 1100 The Flag, a Rep. James Comer of Ken- jump out of his seat. window,” Comer said. “It
is’ staff members tweeted station in Fargo, North Da- tucky said about 100 Re- “I looked out the side of was a garbage truck that
that the first-term congress- kota. Later, he described publican lawmakers were the window and then I was apparently, I would
man was among those the truck’s wreckage and on the train when the crash could see a truck, just in assume, trying to cross the
taken to the hospital. The said, “Valuable lesson, occurred, which made him pieces out the side of the tracks.”q
tweet from Lewis’ account people. Do not challenge
said he was being checked a train at a crossing.”
for a concussion because Authorities have not de-
of the impact. tailed the sequence of
The policy retreat, an an- events.
nual event, is scheduled to Other doctor-lawmakers
last three days and feature who helped included Reps.
speeches from President Michael Burgess, of Texas,
Donald Trump and Vice Phil Roe of Tennessee, Larry
President Mike Pence. By Bucshon of Indiana and
early afternoon, lawmakers Roger Marshall of Kansas;
were boarding buses to re- and Sen. Bill Cassidy of Lou-
sume their trip and Pence isiana.
was still planning to address Cassidy later tweeted that
them later Wednesday. there were three people
Cole said the train stopped on the truck and “one is
quickly after impact. He dead.”
said several GOP lawmak- House Speaker Paul Ryan
ers who are doctors got off of Wisconsin was on the
the train to assist, includ- train and was unhurt, aides
ing Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R- said.
Ohio, who was also at last White House spokeswom-
June’s shooting of Repub- an Sarah Huckabee Sand-
licans at a baseball prac- ers said President Donald
tice in nearby Alexandria, Trump was briefed on the
Virginia, and treated some accident.
of the victims. “There is one confirmed
Another lawmaker, Rep. fatality and one serious in-
Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., was jury,” but no injuries to law-
conducting a live interview makers or their staffs, she
with a local radio station said.
when the accident oc- “Our thoughts and prayers
curred. are with everyone that has
“Oh, Jesus. Sorry about been affected by this inci-
that; we hit a bump here,” dent,” Sanders said.