More than 80 uninjured passengers were bused to a nearby Amtrak station to continue their journey.

Rescue efforts were mounted by the train crew and uninjured passengers; smashing windows on the partly submerged cars to provide escape routes.

Another stationmaster told The Associated Press that Amtrak was dispatching buses to transport uninjured passengers.

Some uninjured passengers walked about a mile to the nearest road, where they were taken away by buses.

On 27 January, Costa posted on its website the compensation package offered to uninjured passengers.

The offer to uninjured passengers is effective until 31 March; as to the families of the dead and missing, separate proposals are to be offered "based on their individual circumstances."

The police said scores of uninjured passengers walked away from the crash site.

Neither driver was intoxicated, the police report says, but the two uninjured passengers "seemed to be highly intoxicated."

"No injured or uninjured passengers waited for even one minute once they reached shore," he said.

But most of the vocal and emotional noise was coming from the argument between Murchison and the glider pilot's uninjured passenger.