33 injured after New York train derails
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A LONG Island Rail Road passenger train derailed on Saturday near the community of New Hyde Park, New York, injuring as many as 33 people and halting service on the key transit line in both directions, railroad officials and police said.
Governor Andrew Cuomo said yesterday it appeared that a train doing maintenance work somehow violated the clearance space of the Long Island Rail Road train.
Both trains were traveling east when they collided just after 9pm on Saturday.
Metropolitan Transit Authority Chairman Thomas Prendergast said seven employees and 26 customers were injured. Four people sustained serious injuries.
According to Cuomo, the 12-car train was heading eastbound on the railroad’s main line carrying about 600 passengers when the first three cars derailed a half mile east of the New Hyde Park Station.
Photos from the scene of the wreck posted on social media showed at least two of the derailed train cars leaning upright but partly off the track.
People riding on the train told local media they saw sparks or fire outside the windows after the train, which had been moving at normal speed, began shaking mildly, then more violently before striking something and coming to a halt.
The New Hyde Park stop is just east of the border with the New York City borough of Queens. The rail line, one of the busiest commuter routes into America’s largest city, said the derailment had forced suspension of service in both directions.
Saturday’s accident on Long Island comes nine days after a passenger train crashed into a terminal in Hoboken, New Jersey, a major commuter route from New York City’s western suburbs. That crash killed one person and injured over 100.
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