KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Samantha McDonald and her brother Dax were traveling with other family members from Arizona to Iowa when the Amtrak train they were on hit a dump truck, causing rail cars to tumble off the tracks and land on their side.
“When the crash happened, I was on the left side of the train car that we were in and I was thrown to the other side of the train car, hitting my head and scraping my face and hitting the right side of my body against the train car,” she said.
McDonald was bleeding from the right side of her head and face, she said during a morning medical update hosted by the University of Kansas Health System that discussed the medical response to the deadly train derailment.
