A derailed Amtrak car can be seen up the tracks near a crossing after an early morning collision with a CSX freight train on February 4, 2018 in Cayce, South Carolina. Two Amtrak employees were killed and more than 100 others injured February 4, 2018 when a passenger train carrying 147 people hit a freight train in the US state of South Carolina, authorities said.Amtrak train 91 -- traveling between New York and Miami -- derailed in Cayce, outside the state capital Columbia, when it collided with the CSX freight train at around 2:30 am (0730 GMT). It was the third deadly incident involving an Amtrak train since December, raising questions about the safety of the national railway service. Pic/ AFP

An Amtrak passenger train slammed into a freight train parked on a side track in South Carolina early today, killing two Amtrak crew members and injuring more than 110 people, authorities said. It was the third deadly wreck involving Amtrak in less than two months. The Silver Star was on its way from New York to Miami with nearly 150 people aboard around 2:45 am (loval time)) when it plowed into the CSX train at an estimated 59 mph, Gov Henry McMaster said. The crash happened around a switchyard about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Columbia.