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2016 Hoboken Train Crash
Topic Started: Sep 29 2016, 01:02 PM (25 Views)
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The Guardian: Hoboken Train Crash - 1 Dead, Over 100 Injured In New Jersey

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A devastating train crash in Hoboken, New Jersey, has left at least one person dead and more than 100 people injured, officials said.

A New Jersey Transit train derailed during rush hour on Thursday morning and crashed into Hoboken terminal, one of the busiest in the state, and a huge commuter hub for those traveling to and from New York City.

New Jersey governor Chris Christie confirmed that at least one person had died, but did not identify the victim.

Injured passengers have been transferred to both the Hoboken University medical center and Jersey medical center by New Jersey Transit buses, officials said. Each hospital had around 40 “walking” patients, with roughly 10 in emergency care in Hoboken, and eight in Jersey City.

“We’re all hands are on deck, all our surgeons, our specialty surgeons as well as our critical care nurses,” a spokesperson for the Hoboken University Medical Center said.

Near the station, first responders continuously pushed media further back down the Observer Highway, away from the station. The scenes remained chaotic at 11am, with a mix of dozens of emergency vehicles, sirens flashing and media attempting to film evidence of destruction outside the station.

Freight train conductor William Blaine, 53, said he felt “death was following” him after he saw the train crash.

He said he was just outside of view of the train in a nearby Dunkin’ Donuts when he heard a “kaboom” and “the whole place shook”. He ran to the track, he said, to try and help.

Blaine said the train came into Hoboken station fast – around 30mph. Typically, he said, a train would slow down as it pulled into the station at 30, then 20, 15, and then one or two miles per hour until it hits a bumper at the end of the platform.

Blaine also said he stepped over the dead body of a woman, who may have been hit by falling iron and steel debris. Officials did not confirm this to the Guardian.

The crash left the terminal severely damaged with steel infrastructure exposed and hanging from the ceiling.

New Jersey Transit trains are not running into Hoboken but service remains normal on the rest of the network, while several roads leading to Hoboken were closed by police. Pedestrians in the area meandered around the scene, looking shocked or confused.

Federal and local investigators, from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, NTSB, and Federal Railroad Administration were on the way to the scene to investigate causes of the crash and extent of the damage.

Governor Christie told CNN that they had not ruled out the possibility that the accident was intentional but there was nothing to indicate that.

New York governor Andrew Cuomo and Christie were also in touch, as many passengers on the train may have been from New York state.

Hoboken, which is NJ Transit’s fifth-busiest station with 15,000 boardings per weekday, is the final stop for several train lines and a transfer point for many commuters on their way to New York City.

NJ Transit provides more than 200 million passenger trips annually on bus, rail and light rail lines. More than 100,000 people use NJ Transit trains to commute from New Jersey into New York City daily.
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(The Guardian) Passengers said the train didn’t slow down as it was pulling into the station, where it hit the rail bumper at the end of the line.

“It just never stopped. It was going really fast and the terminal was basically the brake for the train,” Nancy Bido, a passenger on the train, told WNBC-TV in New York.

“The next thing I know, we are plowing through the platform,” passenger Bhagyesh Shah told NBC New York. “It was for a couple seconds, but it felt like an eternity”.

Shah said he had seen a woman pinned under concrete and many people bleeding.

The train had left Spring Valley, New York, at 7:23 am and crashed into Hoboken Terminal at 8:45 am, according to New Jersey transit.
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--Unbelievable scene in Hoboken right now. Train crashed and went straight through the platform into the station. (Chris Lantero, 29 Sept. 2016)
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(The Guardian) William Blaine, a freight engineer, said he saw the train’s engineer slumped over in the front of the train. “[The engineer] was bent over at the front of the train,” Blaine told reporters on the scene.

“What really bothered me was ... I stepped over a dead woman’s body,” Blaine said.

Blaine said he saw the woman on the side of the train and thought she had been hit by debris.

NBC New York, citing multiple anonymous sources, said at least three people died in the crash. Officials have not confirmed how many people, if any, died in the crash.

“The first person I saw had an injury to his head – all bleeding,” Blaine said. “He seemed in shock himself – half in a coma. He passed back out”.

Blaine said he went to help the man, but someone else beat him to it. He then went to help people off the train.
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(The Guardian) National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) vice chairman, Bella Dinh-Zarr, provided a very brief update on the crash from Washington DC. The federal agency is charged with investigating the cause of the crash.

Dinh-Zarr said that the agency will be assessing the role that a technology designed to slow speeding trains could have played in the system. It is called Positive Train Control (PTC) and is due to be installed in all US railroads by the end of 2018.

It had not ye been installed for this train.

“PTC has been one of our priorities, we know that it can definitely prevent accidents,” said Dinh-Zarr.

She said the NTSB would also examine a crash that occurred at the Hoboken train station on Mother’s Day in 2011. “We are ready to hit the ground running,” Dinh-Zarr said.
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CNN: NJ Transit Data Recorder Didn't Work, NTSB Says
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(CNN) A data recorder that could have helped investigators answer why a New Jersey Transit train crashed in Hoboken last week was not working, the National Transportation Safety Board said Sunday.

"Unfortunately, the event recorder was not functioning during this trip," NTSB Vice Chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr said.
Investigators said the data recorder was over 20 years old.

The NTSB is looking for a second data recorder from a newer passenger car.

The recorder could provide information on the train's speed, use of brakes and throttle position.

The train's engineer, identified as Thomas Gallagher, told NTSB investigators the train entered the Hoboken station at 10 mph.

Witnesses have said the train was speeding as it entered the station instead of slowing down.

Gallagher also told investigators he felt fully rested the day of the accident, and that his cell phone was stored and turned off, officials said.
-Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/02/us/new-jersey-transit-crash-data-recorder/
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