LIRR train derails in Brooklyn injuring 103 people

[hrmjustin]

Source: Daily News

AIDAN MCLAUGHLIN

A speeding LIRR train in Brooklyn derailed during the morning rush hour Wednesday, injuring more than a 100 people, officials said.

The Long Island Railroad train was arriving at the Atlantic Terminal about 8:20 a.m. when it overshot the platform and slammed into the bumper block, causing a sharp stop and a partial derailment, sources said.

Source said the train was going too fast as it entered the station, ABC7 reported.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/lirr-train-derails-brooklyn-atlantic-terminal-article-1.2934105

[leftynyc]

1. Between the LIRR and

Metro North, the MTA is having a very rough few years. Healing thoughts to all those hurt today.

[itcfish]

2. Using Outside Contractors

Cheap chinese steel, starving the railroad in order to privatize it. Sick bastards.

[brooklynite]

3. You're aware that everyone working on the train and maintaining the rail cars are Union employees?

And nobody has ever proposed privatizing the LIRR?

Of course you do...

[crazycatlady]

5. NJ Transit too

[leftynyc]

6. Yes

And Amtrak with share the tracks in the northeast with NJ Transit also. Our trains are a freeking mess. That's an embarrassment in a country this wealthy.

[Eugene]

4. Brooklyn train was speeding before crash: U.S. investigators

Source: Reuters

U.S. | Thu Jan 5, 2017 | 6:01pm EST

Brooklyn train was speeding before crash: U.S. investigators

By Joseph Ax | NEW YORK

The commuter train that crashed at a busy New York City terminal on Wednesday appeared to be traveling at more than twice the speed limit, and the operator has said he does not remember the moment of impact, federal investigators said on Thursday.

The speed limit for the Long Island Rail Road train was five miles per hour. "Right now, we believe the collision at the end of the track was over 10 miles an hour" when the train collided with a bumper at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn at 8:20 a.m. on Wednesday, Ted Turpin, an investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, said.

The accident left more than 100 people with non-life-threatening injuries.

The engineer "does recall entering into the station and controlling the speed of the train," Turpin said at a news conference. "But then the next thing he realized was after the collision."

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-derailment-idUSKBN14P1ZT