Table 1. Injuries.
| Injuries[a 1] | Number |
|---|---|
| Fatal | 8 |
| Serious | 46 |
| Minor | 113 |
| None | 8 |
| Condition unknown | 18[a 2] |
| Total | 193 |
- ↑ This table contains the injury information available as of the date of this report for the 193 people on board the train who either died or were transported to an area hospital on the night of the accident. The remaining 60 people survived the accident but did not go to a hospital, and no injury information is available.
- ↑ Medical records were not available for 18 patients transported and treated at area hospitals.
1.2 Accident Scenario
The Amtrak engineer, conductor, and an assistant conductor went on duty at 1:20 p.m. at New York's Pennsylvania Station; they worked on a train that arrived in Washington, DC, at 5:19 p.m. They went off duty for dinner and went back on duty about an hour and 10 minutes later at 6:30 p.m. At that time, another assistant conductor, who had worked on an earlier train from New York, was added to train 188's crew.
Train 188 departed Washington for New York at 7:15 p.m. (See figure 2.) It made scheduled stops at stations in New Carrollton, Baltimore-Washington International Airport, Baltimore (Pennsylvania Station), and Aberdeen, Maryland, as well as Wilmington, Delaware. Train 188 arrived at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station at 9:06 p.m. where the engineer inspected the locomotive pantograph, as required by Amtrak. The pantograph transmits electrical current from the overhead catenary wire to the train. At 9:10 p.m., the train left the 30th Street Station on time on main track 1.
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