Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
US when it was derailed after hitting a dustbin lorry that was blocking a public crossing, the Daily Mirror reports.The crash left two people on the train dead, as well as one person in the truck, as the train came completely off the tracks near the small town of Mendon in the state of Missouri at around 12.42pm local time (6.42pm UK time) on Monday afternoon (June 27).READ MORE: Heir to the world’s most powerful drug cartel jailed for 9 years amid succession crisisThere were 243 passengers and 12 crew onboard the train at the time of impact.
Shocking pictures taken at the scene by shaken survivors showed eight carriages carrying hundreds of people on their side.Videos shot by shocked passengers also showed them sitting on the side of the derailed carriages as they waited for help.
One of the passengers recorded footage from the accident and said uninjured travellers were taken to a nearby school after the crash.He wrote: "So thankful for the people here, safely at the Northwestern high school near Mendon.
This town pulled together to help everyone."To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here.Another passenger Robert Nightingale, who was having a nap on the service when the crash happened, told CNN: "It all happened like slow motion.
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