Ugh! A real life train wreck…
A Metro-North commuter train derailed and plowed into a second train Friday in Fairfield, Conn. leaving sixty people injured, five of them critically.
Rail traffic from New York to Boston was shut down after the eastbound train derailed at 6:10 p.m. ET and struck a westbound train between the Fairfield and Bridgeport stations.
Gov. Dan Malloy said:
“We have no reason to think it was anything other than an accident, but that has to be explored,”
Alex Cohen, a Canadian passenger on the westbound train in route to New York, told NBC Connecticut:
“We came to a sudden halt. We were jerked. There was smoke. People were screaming; people were really nervous. We were pretty shaken up. They had to smash a window to get us out,”
Wow.
NBC reports:
The Metro-North train that departs New York City’s Grand Central Station for New Haven, Conn., at 4:41 p.m., with an estimated 300 passengers, derailed near the I-95 overpass in Bridgeport, MTA said in a statement. The train that leaves New Haven’s State Street station for Grand Central at 5:30 p.m., carrying about 400 passengers, struck the derailed train, the statement said.
There is no immediate word on what caused the derailment or how fast either train was going but it will be determined by the National Transportation Safety Board, which will lead the investigation.
SOURCE: NBC
