NYC train derailment kills 4 and injures 63
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A suburban New York train derailed on a curved section of track in the Bronx yesterday morning, killing at least four people and injuring 63, including 11 critically, authorities said.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo revealed the deaths at a briefing at the site of the crash near the Spuyten Duyvil station. He said authorities believe everyone at the site has been accounted for and investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board are en route.
Three of the dead were found outside the train, and one was found inside, authorities said. Their families haven’t yet been notified.
Eleven people are believed to be in critical condition, authorities said. The train operator was among the dozens injured, Cuomo said.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said the big curve where the derailment occurred is in a slow speed area. The black box should be able to tell how fast the train was traveling, Anders said.
The derailment of the southbound Hudson Line train was reported at about 7:20am local time, authorities said. The train left the town of Poughkeepsie at 5:54am and was due to arrive at 7:43am at Grand Central Terminal in midtown Manhattan.
Four or five cars on the seven-car train derailed about 90 meters north of the station, the MTA said in a news release. But none of the cars entered the Hudson or Harlem rivers, which are adjacent, according to the MTA.
The train appeared to be going “a lot faster” than usual as it approached the curve coming into the station, passenger Frank Tatulli told WABC-TV.
MTA Chairman Thomas F. Prendergast was asked at the news conference if speed was something authorities planned to investigate.
“That’d be one of the factors,” he said, adding that the focus right now was on the passengers who were injured.
Joel Zaritsky said he was on his way to New York City for a dental convention.
“I was asleep and I woke up when the car started rolling several times. Then I saw the gravel coming at me, and I heard people screaming. There was smoke everywhere and debris. People were thrown to the other side of the train,” he said, holding his bloody right hand.
Passengers were taken off the derailed train, with dozens of them bloodied and scratched, holding ice packs to their heads.
The Fire Department of New York said 130 firefighters had responded to the derailment.
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