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| Amtrak train carrying congressmen to GOP retreat hits truck | Amtrak train carrying congressmen to GOP retreat hits truck |
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| A train carrying Republican lawmakers, staff and families to a policy retreat in West Virginia has hit a truck near Charlottesville, Virginia. | |
| It's unclear if there were any serious injuries on the train. | |
| The crash took place in Crozet, Virginia, about 12 miles west of Charlottesville. Emergency responders are on the scene. A GOP aide told MSNBC that most people seem to be okay, but “there appear to be some injuries.” | |
| A nurse told WVIR there was one fatality and at least one person was in critical condition. | A nurse told WVIR there was one fatality and at least one person was in critical condition. |
| Of the three passengers in the truck, one was killed and two were injured in the crash, Senator Jeff Flake (R-Arizona) told the Washington Post. Flake and other lawmakers helped local medical personnel carry one of the injured passengers to an ambulance. | |
| Representative Carlos Curbelo (R-Florida) told MSNBC “the train is almost entirely occupied by members of Congress and their spouses.” | |
| “This was without question a big wreck,” Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) told Fox News via telephone, adding that "many people took a hard hit to the head." | |
| The train reportedly went from traveling 70 miles per hour to a hard stop. | |
| "It was a very high-speed collision, there was no braking" Rep. Jeff Denham (R-California), who was on the train with his wife and 8 children, told Fox News. |