Washington Amtrak train traveled 80 mph before it derailed, NTSB says

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DUPONT, WA — The Amtrak train that derailed Monday in Washington state was traveling 80 mph in a 30 mph zone, National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman T. Bella Dinh-Zarr said.
It’s too early to tell why the train had been traveling at that speed, she said. But NTSB investigators arrived Monday to DuPont, where a passenger train had run off the tracks, killing at least three people and injuring more than 100 others. They’ll spend their first full day at the s