Raleigh,NC : Passengers from NC describe deadly train crash on February, Sunday 4th 2018

Several people on the train that crashed in South Carolina early Sunday morning have connections to North Carolina.

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Andre Neblett, a former Carolina Panthers player, said his mother was on the train.

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"It was chaos," Neblett said after driving to the scene of the crash from North Carolina to retrieve his mother's suitcase from a Red Cross shelter. "She said she was just waiting on somebody to get to her. We see stuff like this on the news all the time, but here it's touched my family close, and we just thank God that she's okay."

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Passengers from NC describe deadly train crash