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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 29 2016, 01:02 PM (25 Views) | |
| Webster | Sep 29 2016, 01:02 PM Post #1 |
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The Guardian: Hoboken Train Crash - 1 Dead, Over 100 Injured In New Jersey![]()
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| Webster | Sep 29 2016, 01:04 PM Post #2 |
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Live News Feeds...... The Guardian Google News |
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| Webster | Sep 29 2016, 01:05 PM Post #3 |
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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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| Webster | Sep 29 2016, 01:08 PM Post #4 |
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![]() --PV Line train crash in Hoboken Station #NJT #PATH (Corey Futterman, 29 Sept. 2016) ![]() --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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| Webster | Sep 29 2016, 01:10 PM Post #5 |
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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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| Webster | Sep 29 2016, 01:12 PM Post #6 |
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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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| Webster | Oct 2 2016, 10:29 PM Post #7 |
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CNN: NJ Transit Data Recorder Didn't Work, NTSB Says-Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/02/us/new-jersey-transit-crash-data-recorder/ |
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