NTSB: Switch was in wrong position at the time of fatal Amtrak crash in South Carolina; PTC could have prevented accident

February 5, 2018

(Source: Associated Press, February 5, 2018)

CAYCE, S.C. — Federal investigators are trying to figure out why a switch was in the wrong position, sending an Amtrak train into a freight train and killing a conductor and an engineer in South Carolina.