NTSB: CSX at fault in Cayce train wreck

(AP Photo/Jeff Blake, File)

(AP Photo/Jeff Blake, File) FILE- This Feb. 4, 2018, file photo shows an aerial view of the site of a fatal train crash between an Amtrak train, bottom right, and a CSX freight train, top left, in Cayce, S.C. Federal officials are meeting to discuss what caused an Amtrak train to divert on to a side track in South Carolina last year and slam into a parked train, killing two crew members and injuring more than 100 passengers. The National Transportation Safety Board is meeting Tuesday, July 23, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Federal safety officials say the failure to fully implement a train safety system delayed seven times in the past decade contributed to a wreck in South Carolina that killed two Amtrak crew members and injured almost 100 passengers.

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said Tuesday the irony of the February 2018 train wreck near Columbia was it happened as crews were installing that safety system called Positive Train Control.

To install the system, workers had to turn off safety signals that indicate whether train tracks have been turned off the main line.

The NTSB on Tuesday put the main cause of the crash on CSX. They say the company didn’t have a proper safety plan for the signals being down on its track and its workers failed to follow steps to make sure to flip the track back to the main line before the Amtrak train passed through.