Christopher Foley was a resident of Louisa County, Virginia. ^{[4] [1] [0]}

On Wednesday, January 31, 2018, an Amtrak train carrying dozens of members of Congress to a GOP policy retreat at The Greenbrier in West Virginia crashed into a garbage truck, Foley was a passenger of, fatally killing him. ^{[4] [1] [0]}

The train was a specially chartered Amtrak train that left Union Station around 8:30 a.m. and, at 11:20 a.m., collided with the garbage truck just west of Crozet, Virginia, near Marymart Farm Road and Lanetown Road. ^{[4] [1] [0]}

The truck was torn in half and the nose of the locomotive crumpled in the collision, which occurred at a crossing with fully-equipped warning signals.

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