Second Amtrak Crash in Two Days Kills Three in Missouri

One day after an Amtrak train crash killed three people in California, another Amtrak train, traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago, derailed Monday in Missouri, leaving at least three people dead and multiple people injured, authorities said.

The train was carrying about 240 passengers and 12 crew members when it collided with a dump truck near Mendon, Mo., about 100 miles outside of Kansas City, according to National Public Radio and Associated Press news reports. Seven cars and two locomotives on an Amtrak Southwest Chief train derailed.

Two people from the Amtrak train were killed in addition to one person in the dump truck, Missouri State Highway Patrol Corporal Justin Dunn told reporters during a news conference Monday afternoon.

Dunn told reporters there were at least 207 passengers and about 14 crew members, but that the totals are preliminary, and differ from the totals previously reported by Amtrak.

The day before, three people were killed when an Amtrak commuter train smashed into a car in Northern California, authorities said.