KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A deadly derailment involving an Amtrak train and a dump truck last month in rural Missouri caused an estimated $4 million in damages, according to a preliminary report by the investigating agencies.
The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday posted a preliminary report confirming details previously released about the collision, which left the truck driver and three passengers dead, and many more wounded, as the train passed through Mendon, Missouri.
The train, headed from Los Angeles to Chicago, was carrying 270 passengers and 12 crew members, according to the NTSB report. The locomotive and every railcar derailed during the collision. Seven of the railcars came to rest off the tracks on their sides.
