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This photo provided by Nicholas Waun shows the scene where two trains, right, collided and derailed in Georgetown, Ky., early Monday, March 19, 2018. Four people were taken to the hospital after the accident late Sunday night. (Photo: Nicholas Waun, AP)

Two Northern Kentuckians are being sued by their employer, Norfolk Southern Railway Co., after a train collision in Georgetown earlier this year.

Kevin Tobergte, of Fort Thomas, and Andrew Hall, of Fort Mitchell, were operating train No. 175 on March 18 when it collided with another train, derailing 13 cars and injuring four people.

According to a civil suit filed in U.S. District Court in Lexington on April 5, Tobergte and Hall did not slow or stop the train despite signals and caused the collision.

Four Norfolk Southern workers were taken to the hospital and a fire forced nearby residents to evacuate because of the March 18 crash, the Associated Press reported.

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The lawsuit says Tobergte and Hall were negligent for failing to maintain a lookout for signals, failing to slow down in time, failing to tell a dispatcher that they had used the emergency brake and failing to tell anyone the train had run past a stop signal.

As a direct result, southbound train 175 collided with northbound train M 74, causing the "total destruction" of two locomotives, extensive damage to several other locomotives and the derailment of 13 rail cars, the lawsuit says.

Court documents say that the collision also caused petroleum to be released into the surface or subsurface soil or groundwater, causing a risk to human health and the environment.

This photo provided by Nicholas Waun shows the scene where two trains collided and derailed in Georgetown, Ky., early Monday, March 19, 2018. Four people were taken to the hospital after the accident late Sunday night (Photo: Nicholas Waun, AP)

The lawsuit is asking for a judgment against both men for damages to Norfolk Southern's property and third-party property damage, including landowners and losses associated with delayed freight shipments.

Correction: A previous version of this article named incorrect legal representation for the defendants.

Read or Share this story: https://cin.ci/2GLzzwn </s> A crash between an Amtrak passenger train and a CSX freight train in South Carolina has left at least two people dead and about 70 people injured.

Lexington County spokesman Harrison Cahill said the trains collided in Cayce around 2:45 a.m. Sunday.

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Cahill couldn’t say if the two people killed were on the passenger train or the freight train. He says the injuries ranged from scratches to broken bones.

Amtrak says the lead engine and a few passenger cars derailed on Amtrak 91, which was operating from New York to Miami. There were eight crew members and approximately 139 passengers on board

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Lexington County Sheriff’s spokesman Adam Myrick says deputies were taking the uninjured in patrol cars to a shelter.
The Norfolk Southern Railway sues two staff members involved in a train collision last month in Georgetown, Kentucky, that derailed 13 cars and injured four.