A commuter train in New Jersey has crashed into a train station in Hoboken, N.J., resulting in multiple injuries and heavy damage.
At least 100 people are injured, New Jersey Transit officials tell Stephen Nessen of WNYC.
WNYC’s Nancy Solomon arrived on the scene shortly after the crash, and says she personally saw 20 to 30 injured people, including at least four who were unable to walk.
She says a train had crossed the barriers at the end of the track, where it’s supposed to stop, and traveled “all the way into the station — not into the waiting room but into the outdoor part where people transfer.”
Passengers walk to safety after a NJ Transit train crashed in to the platform in Hoboken, N.J., on Thursday morning. Pancho Bernasconi/Getty Images
“About a fourth of the roof is collapsed,” she tells our Newscast unit, and water was spraying from the damaged station.
It’s unclear if there are any fatalities, she says.
Solomon spoke to one man who had been a passenger on the train that crashed, in the second car. He said the train didn’t seem to be slowing down enough as it approached the station, and he braced himself for impact.
“People all around him were bloodied,” Solomon says. “The train went dark after it crashed. People were screaming, and then they helped each other — there was really no assistance — they helped each other off the train.”
Witness Ben Fairclough tells NPR’s Morning Edition he, too, talked to people who were inside the train as it crashed.
“They said the train was shaking before it came to an eventual stop and it was moving at a high rate of speed,” he says. “There were people climbing out of windows, there was water coming down from the top of the ceiling and there did appear to be folks who were unconscious.”
A portion of the roof collapsed after a NJ Transit crashed in to the platform at the Hoboken Terminal on Thursday morning. Pancho Bernasconi/Getty Images
There is no indication of what may have caused the accident. The Federal Railroad Administration has investigators en route to the Hoboken New Jersey train crash, NPR’s David Schaper reports, and the National Transportation Safety Board is gathering information on the crash.
A radio anchor who witnessed the crash told CBS that the train “simply did not stop. It went right through the barriers and into the reception area.”
Rail service in and out of Hoboken train station has been suspended, New Jersey Transit has announced. Transit buses and the NY Waterway are accepting rail tickets and passes.
Hoboken station is a major commuter terminal. The station averages more than than 15,000 boardings each weekday on New Jersey Transit, and 28,000 each weekday on PATH.
Trains derail every week because there’s no money for maintaining infrastructure. It all has to be spent on the Jews, the wetbacks, the military contractors, or anybody except the people who earned it, and whom it belongs to.
It’s called wholesale theft, on a national scale.
Shovel Ready Yobs Mang.
Thought the trains were computer controlled. Nothing can go wrong ….. go wrong …. go wrong … go wrong
Anything can go wrong from human fault to a track issue.
As far as I know, computers do not control the trains yet.
“It’s unclear if there are any fatalities, she says.”
It was up to 3 on one article I saw. Downgraded to 1 most recently.