Yesterday, a
devastating train wreck in Dupont, Washington took human lives and caused serious
injuries to dozens of passengers when a southbound train on its maiden
high-speed voyage was about to encounter a looming, yet preventable,
mini-Titanic situation.
Approaching
a curve at 80 miles per hour instead of the designated 30-mile
per hour limit, the speeding train (Amtrak Cascades 501) could not reverse the laws of physics as it spilled its passenger-laden
rail cars
helter-skelter into the woods, off an overpass, and onto an interstate.
