On impact, most of her ribs were crushed, her lungs collapsed. Ritter’s body was hurled from the train with such force that her abdominal organs push through her diaphragm, up into her chest. Paul Cheung/AP Investigators and first responders work near the wreckage of Amtrak Northeast Regional Train 188, from Washington to New York, that derailed in north Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Win McNamee/Getty Images A passenger is carried following the Amtrak train crash. At least six people were killed and more than 200 others were injured in the 2015 Amtrak 188 crash. I realized we were -” Ritter said, trailing off. “I remember feeling like the train was tipping, and thinking that was impossible because trains don’t tip. The engineer applied the emergency brakes, and seconds later, according to the National Transportation Safety Board accident report, the train jumped the tracks. The Northeast Regional service entered the Frankford Junction curve in North Philadelphia going 106 miles per hour - more than twice the 50 mph limit for the notorious, 90-degree turn. Usually the train pulls out really slowly, and I’m always impatient,” she said. “I noticed that we seemed to be going faster. Then she stood up to get something from her briefcase and realized something was off.
Her husband texted that one of her three sons, Steven, 8 at the time, had done well at baseball practice earlier that evening. The evening of the fateful crash, Ritter was seated in business class which occupied the first car on the train. Bill Bernstein Geralyn Ritter pictured with her three sons and husband, Jonathan. “I was healthy, and I will never be that healthy again.” Geralyn Ritter, 57, details her survival and recovery seven years after the deadly 2015 Amtrak 188 crash. That morning seven years ago, my life was normal,” Ritter told The Post. “The thing that hits me over, and over, again is how ordinary the day was.
Ritter was among 11 passengers who were critically wounded, and the pharmaceutical executive relays her traumatic experience and excruciating recovery in a new memoir, “Bone by Bone: A Memoir of Trauma and Healing,” (Core Media Group) out Tuesday. The infamous Amtrak train crash on May 12, 2015, killed eight and injured more than 200 passengers. “I remember a flash of realization that we were tipping over, and I remember screaming,” Ritter, 57, of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, told The Post. The next thing she knew, she was hooked up to a ventilator at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, fighting for her life. On a spring evening in 2015, Geralyn Ritter sprinted through Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station to catch her New York-bound train. Missouri farmer warned railway about crossing before Amtrak derailment Two sisters among those killed in Missouri Amtrak crashįourth person dies in Amtrak derailment in Missouri Democrats snubbed the working class and other commentary
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