{"id":77452,"date":"2018-01-31T15:24:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77452"},"modified":"2018-01-31T15:24:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T20:24:52","slug":"train-hits-garbage-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77452","title":{"rendered":"Train hits Garbage Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/train-carrying-dozens-of-congress-members-hits-truck-killing-1-1.509346\">Associated Press<\/a> reports that a train-load of Republicans on their way to a policy retreat in West Virginia struck a garbage truck parked on the tracks in Virginia. One of the garbage truck crew was killed and another was life-flighted from the scene;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Minnesota Rep. Jason Lewis&#8217; staff members tweeted that the first-term congressman was among those taken to the hospital. The tweet from Lewis&#8217; account said he was being checked for a concussion because of the impact.<\/p>\n<p>The policy retreat, an annual event, is scheduled to last three days and feature speeches from President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence. By early afternoon, lawmakers were boarding buses to resume their trip and Pence was still planning to address them later Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/arizona\/2018\/01\/31\/senator-jeff-flake-helps-injured-passengers-after-train-carrying-gop-lawmakers-collides\/1083551001\/\">AZCentral<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Jeff Flake rushed to the aid of injured passengers from a garbage truck Wednesday after it collided with an Amtrak train carrying Republican lawmakers to a GOP congressional retreat in West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>For Flake, R-Ariz., the accident scene near Crozet, Va., brought back memories of last year\u2019s shooting at the GOP congressional baseball team practice in Alexandria, Va., in which House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., was seriously wounded.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My only question is WTF was Jeff Flake doing on a policy retreat for Republicans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reports that a train-load of Republicans on their way to a policy retreat &hellip; <a title=\"Train hits Garbage Truck\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77452\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Train hits Garbage Truck<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}