Eighth victim found dead after Amtrak train crash, as probe deepens

Rescuers with sniffer dogs found an eighth victim in the mangled wreckage of a train that derailed in Philadelphia, as investigators focused on the engineer’s actions in the run-up to the crash. All 243 people aboard the train - which ran off the rails late Tuesday, leaving some cars overturned and reducing others to twisted heaps of metal and debris - have now been accounted for, officials said. Amtrak Train 188, which was traveling from Washington to New York, crashed as it entered a curve while moving at a little over 60 kilometres per hour - twice the 50 mph speed limit, according to investigators.

We want to find out their perspective of things. We want to find out where they were seated, and their injury patterns so that we can start correlating their injuries for accident survival.

NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt

Video leading up the crash shows the train accelerating as it nears the curve, rocketing from 70 mph to over 100 mph in the minute or so before the footage cuts out, the National Transportation Safety Board said. Investigators said they had completed 3D scanning of the two most damaged cars and had started talking to passengers to try and find out what happened in the lead up to the accident.

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