This website is best viewed in a browser that supports web standards.
Skip to content or, if you would rather, Skip to navigation.
June 28, 2022Mendon, Mo. | By: AP
MENDON, Mo. (AP) - Three people were killed and dozens others were injured Monday when an Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck and derailed in a remote, rural area of Missouri.
A Missouri State Highway Patrol spokesman says two of the people who died were on the train and one was in the truck.
It was not immediately clear exactly how many people were hurt, the patrol said, but hospitals reported receiving more than 40 patients from the crash and were expecting more.
Officials say Amtrak's Southwest Chief was carrying about 207 passengers and crew members when the collision happened near Mendon at a rural intersection on a gravel road with no crossing arms. The Highway Patrol said seven cars derailed.
KXCV-KRNW
Wells Hall | 800 University Drive | Maryville, MO 64468
660.562.1163 | 660.562.1832 (fax) | www.kxcv.org
© 2014 KXCV-KRNW. All rights reserved.
Public Radio Service of Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville.
