At around 9:30 last night Amtrak train 188 was traveling from Washington to New York when it derailed in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia, cars were torn apart and seven of them were sent flying from the tracks. The train was carrying 238 passengers and five  crew members, as of now seven are dead and seven passengers remain in critical condition at Temple University hospital.Most of the passengers were able to escape, climbing out of windows to safety. Crews had to cut through the cars to get to others. About 146 passengers were injured during the crash from having objects land on top of them but have minor injuries. Unfortunately police do not know why the crash happened although, early Wednesday morning investigators in orange vests walked up and down the track especially near a part where it curves.

Daniel Wetrin a passenger on the train that night told CNN, “Until the second of impact, everything was normal, then it was just chaos.”

At a news conference around 1 a.m. Mayor Nutter said he couldn’t say whether all the passengers had been accounted for. Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board are going to investigate the the scene Wednesday morning, and the investigation into what happened will begin.

It was later found that the engineer of the tain Brandon Bostian was going 108 mph around the curve that was posted at only 50 mph, Bostian has been an Amtrak engineer since 2010. Before that, he was an Amtrak conductor for four years. His attorney Robert Goggin says that Bostian

“has absolutely no recollection whatsoever of the events, he remembers coming into the curve (and) attempting to reduce speed,… The last thing he recalls is coming to, looking for his bag, getting his cell phone, turning it on and calling 911.”