A scary moment for some exchange students from Grand Ledge High School Sunday as the Amtrak train they were riding in derailed.
15 German exchange students were among the 174 passengers on board the Amtrak train heading back into Michigan from Chicago, when two of the train cars lost contact with the track.
It happened just after 9 Sunday morning, near Niles Michigan about 60 miles southwest of Kalamazoo.
The exchange students are staying with host families in grand ledge. One of those families, the lee's have been hosting one of the students for just over a week.
According to the Lee's, traveling is part of the exchange program.
The students have already been to the U. P and spent time here at the state capitol and MSU and this weekend they were all in Chicago.
They say the accident Sunday is the last thing any one expected the students to encounter on their journey.
"They come over to see America and the best of America and they want to have a good time and learn everything and to get caught up in something like this, it is a shock," said parent Jim Lee.
"I called our teacher and she said that three students were in the hospital and the rest of them were on the train that were on these tracks and
I didn't know what conditions the Germans were in the hospital," said Senior Emma Lee.
"I was nervous for my German because I didn't know how she was feeling, whether she was scared or nervous."
After Sunday's ordeal, none of the students who came back to Grand Ledge wanted to talk to 6 News on camera.
Fortunately though, 6 News is told the three who were taken to the hospital are ok, they were treated for whip lash and have since been released.
None of the injuries suffered by any passengers Sunday were serious.
