Posted on Jun 29, 2022
A passenger recounts the moment the Amtrak train derailed: 'It was hell on Earth'
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A passenger on board the Amtrak train that crashed into a truck and derailed in Missouri on Monday, killing four people, has described the accident as "hell on Earth."
Charles Hoffman was in one of the carriages that overturned at 12:43p.m. CT on the trip between Los Angeles and Chicago.
"I was riding backwards, so that was a blessing because I didn't fly forward on the impact, but all I heard was a bam, bang, boom," he said. "And all of a sudden the train dropped down, which I thought was probably when it went off track."
"And then it was like, bam, bam, bam, bam, riding down the wooden railroad ties."
"It overturned, fell to the left, and it skidded, skidded, skidded forever. I felt like it, anyway."
A passenger on board the Amtrak train that crashed into a truck and derailed in Missouri on Monday, killing four people, has described the accident as "hell on Earth."
Charles Hoffman was in one of the carriages that overturned at 12:43p.m. CT on the trip between Los Angeles and Chicago.
"I was riding backwards, so that was a blessing because I didn't fly forward on the impact, but all I heard was a bam, bang, boom," he said. "And all of a sudden the train dropped down, which I thought was probably when it went off track."
"And then it was like, bam, bam, bam, bam, riding down the wooden railroad ties."
"It overturned, fell to the left, and it skidded, skidded, skidded forever. I felt like it, anyway."
A passenger recounts the moment the Amtrak train derailed: 'It was hell on Earth'
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