In a preliminary report on the derailment of Amtrak's Train 188, the National Transportation Safety Board said on Tuesday that it had found no anomalies with the braking system of the formation or the signals and track at the crash site.
Amtrak is taking "full responsibility" for the crash of Train 188, whose derailment Tuesday night resulted in the deaths of eight passengers and injured more than 200, the rail operator said.
The train engineer in charge of the Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia "has absolutely no recollection of the incident or anything unusual" and "no explanation" for what caused the accident, his lawyer told ABC News on Thursday.
The Amtrak train involved in Tuesday night's fatal Philadelphia crash may have been traveling at more than 100 miles an hour as it entered a sharp curve where it derailed.
The train crashed into a tractor-trailer at a railway crossing in North Carolina and injured more than 50 people, including the train's engineer. At least two cars, including the locomotive derailed, though reports say a third also derailed.
Nearly 30 people were injured after a collision between a Los Angeles-bound Metrolink and a produce truck Tuesday morning. Five train cars were derailed, and three were left on their side after the accident in Oxnard just before 6 a.m.
Around 17 tanker cars carrying crude oil exploded or caught fire after a CSX train derailed near a West Virginia lake. Federal and state officials are investigating the incident and testing the river's water for possible contamination.
On Wednesday, a train carrying crude oil derailed and crashed in downtown Lynchburg, Virginia, prompting an immediate evacuation of hundreds of people.
