LIRR Derailment (10/8/16)

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Gulfwind2

Gulfwind2

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The Associated Press is reporting that at approximately 9PM an LIRR train with "about 600 people" derailed near Hyde Park, NY. Those familiar with the area may be aware that the train was about 20 miles east of Penn Station. No fatalities are reported but this is described as having been a collision with a "work train", and injuries are ranging from "broken bones" to "lacerations". This will nearly undoubtedly raise more questions in the media about whether any form of PTC can actually prevent incidents such as this from occurring.
 
Gulfwind2 said:
The Associated Press is reporting that at approximately 9PM an LIRR train with "about 600 people" derailed near Hyde Park, NY. Those familiar with the area may be aware that the train was about 20 miles east of Penn Station. No fatalities are reported but this is described as having been a collision with a "work train", and injuries are ranging from "broken bones" to "lacerations". This will nearly undoubtedly raise more questions in the media about whether any form of PTC can actually prevent incidents such as this from occurring.
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New Hyde Park (on Long Island), not Hyde Park (in Dutchess County).

nytimes.com reports 33 seriously injured in collision of LIRR passenger train and maintenance train.

Ainamkartma
 
I kinda understood that this was a sideswipe by a crane/gantry on the work train, which I'm not really sure that PTC would even begin to address.
 

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