Seventy-eight passengers and five crew members were aboard when the train derailed about 40 miles (64 kilometers) south of Seattle before 8 a.m., Amtrak said. TACOMA, Wash. -- An Amtrak train making the first-ever run along a faster new route hurtled off an overpass south of Seattle on Monday and spilled some of its cars onto the highway below, killing three people, injuring more than 100 and crushing two vehicles, authorities said. “And then we were not on the tracks anymore.” 
 
 The train’s lights blinked out and passengers heard “crumpling and crashing and screaming from people,” Karnes said. The only car that is on the tracks is the rear locomotive," Karnes told the Associated Press. The National Transportation Safety said late Monday night, preliminary reports from the data recorder in the rear locomotive show the train was going 80 miles per hour on a 30 mile per hour track. The northbound lanes are expected to remain open, officials said near the crash site Monday night. The State Patrol said Monday night 72 people were taken to area hospitals, of those 10 patients were in serious condition and one of those patients was airlifted to Harboview Medical Center. DuPont Mayor Michael P. Courts also declared a state of emergency in that city. Moments before the wreck, speeds were gauged at about 81 mph, according to transitdocs.com, a website that maps Amtrak train locations and speeds using data from the railroad’s train tracker app. A track chart prepared by the Washington State Department of Transportation shows the maximum speed drops from 79 mph to 30 mph for passenger trains just before the tracks curve to cross Interstate 5. WATCH: NTSB gives update on Amtrak derailment: 
 
 The NTSB also said crash prevention technology, known as Positive Train Control (PTC), was also not activated, 
 
 80 passengers, five crew members and one technician were aboard when the train derailed about 40 miles south of Seattle just after 7:30 a.m., Amtrak said. In a tweet sent about three hours after the crash that authorities said killed at least six Monday, Trump says it shows "more than ever why our soon to be submitted infrastructure plan must be approved quickly." City officials in Lakewood have long been worried about the dangers residents could face as these trains race through the city. Konzelman, who was driving with his girlfriend, parked his car and grabbed some boots and a headlamp 
 
 He said he climbed a tree that had fallen and stepped into a train car through a window. The sheriff's office said several vehicles on Interstate 5 were struck by falling train cars and multiple motorists were injured. The Pierce County Sheriff's Office said five passenger vehicles and two semi trucks on Interstate 5 were struck by falling train cars and multiple motorists were injured. Correction: A previous version of this story reported, citing The Associated Press, that at least six people were killed in the derailment.
– An Amtrak train making its first run on a new route derailed near Tacoma Monday morning, spilling train cars onto a busy interstate. A spokesman for the Pierce County sheriff's office initially reported six fatalities, all of them train passengers, per the Seattle Times. Officials later put the number of confirmed dead at three. Scores more were injured, including motorists. KOMO reports that nearly 80 people were taken to local hospitals, and some are in critical condition. The train derailed just before 8am local time Monday about 40 miles south of Seattle, closing all southbound lanes of Interstate 5, per the AP. The Washington Post reports 13 cars left the track. The cause remains under investigation. More on the accident: The route: Train 501 derailed on its inaugural run on a new route, having left Seattle for Portland at 6am; the trip was to take about 3.5 hours. The train was making use of a new bypass, and a local mayor had warned earlier this month about potential accidents, as recounted in this story at KOMO, though the AP notes Don Anderson suggested the most vulnerable points involved crossings where a train could strike a car or passenger. The bypass was intended to help trains avoid slow curves and single-track tunnels along the previous route.