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UPDATE: White House confirms one fatality, says no lawmakers seriously hurt in train crash
WSAZ ^ | Jan 31, 2018 | WSAZ

Posted on 01/31/2018 10:03:28 AM PST by Morgana

The White House is confirming one fatality and one serious injury after a chartered train carrying Republican lawmakers to a retreat in West Virginia hit a garbage truck.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says there are no serious injuries among members of Congress or congressional staff.

Sanders says President Donald Trump has been fully briefed on the matter and is receiving regular updates.

The train carrying the lawmakers hit a garbage truck south of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Lawmakers are heading to their annual legislative retreat at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

(Excerpt) Read more at wsaz.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; US: Virginia; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: amtrak; braking; charlottesville; gopretreat; greenbrierresort; rail; republicans; sarahhuckabeesanders; train; trainaccident; trainwreck; twitter; virginia; westvirginia; whitesulphursprings
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SO SAD

PRAYERS FOR HIS FAMILY

1 posted on 01/31/2018 10:03:28 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

3 people in the truck? Interesting.


2 posted on 01/31/2018 10:06:14 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: Morgana

Yup.

Curious about the truck though. Were the dems on their way to a retreat also?


3 posted on 01/31/2018 10:06:35 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Morgana

Message sent and received.


4 posted on 01/31/2018 10:06:46 AM PST by bagster (Even bad men love their mamas.)
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To: Morgana

If senator Paul was on there he should not get out of bed ever. He is a magnet for these things.


5 posted on 01/31/2018 10:08:16 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: mewzilla

Its a garbage truck supposedly..three garbagemen? This whole thing smells fishy, Rachel Campos Duffy was on board and she said it is clearly marked, no one should have been on the tracks at the time, and this is a train that many would have known were carrying GOP members(over 200 members of congress on board, including Paul Ryan who is fine)


6 posted on 01/31/2018 10:09:05 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Yaelle

Rand Paul is doing “Outnumbered” on Fox News he was not on board


7 posted on 01/31/2018 10:09:43 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Not really. Where I live? There are three in a truck all the time. That is standard. Must be a West Virginia thing.


8 posted on 01/31/2018 10:10:26 AM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

I’ve been waiting for the MSM to release their months old story or a completely fabricated hit piece to divert the attention from the positive reaction to the SOTU. This is their usual MO. Initially I thought this “accident” might be the play.
I’m thinking now that they might be waiting for the memo to be released before trying to suck the oxygen out of the news cycle.


9 posted on 01/31/2018 10:11:10 AM PST by hardspunned
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To: Morgana

The train carrying the lawmakers hit a garbage truck south of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Lawmakers are heading to their annual legislative retreat at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.


10 posted on 01/31/2018 10:12:14 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Morgana

Im in LA and here Ive only seen 1 person in the trash truck I guess its an LA thing


11 posted on 01/31/2018 10:13:48 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: rktman

(according to one news report I heard on FNC) Dems retreat is next week... unless you count last night :-)


12 posted on 01/31/2018 10:16:23 AM PST by Kent C
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To: mewzilla

Why was the truck sitting on the track? Was it stuck at a traffic light? Is there a hill so you can’t see it coming? Were the lights on the crossing not working? and why didn’t they jump out of the truck...or at least one or two of them... a bit strange. Maybe on their phones? texting?


13 posted on 01/31/2018 10:18:04 AM PST by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: longfellowsmuse

All very good questions.

It’ll be interesting to find out.


14 posted on 01/31/2018 10:19:18 AM PST by mewzilla
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To: ptsal

Maybe Tony Soprano was behind this.


15 posted on 01/31/2018 10:19:39 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Morgana

Fox has been covering this accident non stop since it happened. Enough, already.

They should get back to covering the SOU, the Obama memo, etc.


16 posted on 01/31/2018 10:19:41 AM PST by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Morgana

We have only one on the truck.


17 posted on 01/31/2018 10:20:07 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda; Morgana

Only one driver here in Minnesota.


18 posted on 01/31/2018 10:20:34 AM PST by NorthstarMom
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To: hardspunned

Especially since it happened near Charlottesville.


19 posted on 01/31/2018 10:20:47 AM PST by Freee-dame (Best election ever.)
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To: laplata

Turn the TV off-——it will drive you nuts.

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20 posted on 01/31/2018 10:21:11 AM PST by Mears
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