6 Lexington Ave Posted May 17, 2013 Share #1 Posted May 17, 2013 Two Metro-North trains collided in Connecticut during the evening rush hour Friday, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five critically injured and one very critically injured, Gov. Dannel Malloy said. There were no reports of fatalities. The accident happened about 6:10 p.m. just east of the Bridgeport-Fairfield line when an eastbound train heading to New Haven from New York derailed and collided with a westbound train on a section of track near a viaduct that is under renovation.Read more: Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreeddekalbL Posted May 17, 2013 Share #2 Posted May 17, 2013 First train derailed then struck by 2nd train http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Metro-North-Trains-Collide-Bridgeport-Connecticut-Several-People-Hurt-207944571.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_NYBrand Eastbound Metro-North service was disrupted east of South Norwalk, while westbound service was limited to between Bridgeport and New York City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfs NJT459 Posted May 17, 2013 Share #3 Posted May 17, 2013 20-25 injuries reported, no fatalities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minato ku Posted May 17, 2013 Share #4 Posted May 17, 2013 Wow, that's a bad news, especially when two trains on the oposite direction collide, thanks god it seem that trains were running at low speed and there is no fatalities. Do we know why the first train derailed ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BreeddekalbL Posted May 18, 2013 Share #5 Posted May 18, 2013 UPDATE: Amtrak Acela and Northeast Regional service between NYC and Boston suspended indefinitely due to Bridgeport train derailment .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GojiMet86 Posted May 18, 2013 Share #6 Posted May 18, 2013 From looking at the pictures, it looks like the Engineers were spared from death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtattrain Posted May 18, 2013 Share #7 Posted May 18, 2013 Wow damn, those two train waysided each other... hope the passengers are alright; this seems pretty bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamousNYLover Posted May 18, 2013 Share #8 Posted May 18, 2013 http://youtu.be/djO36ve9R9c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qjtransitmaster Posted May 18, 2013 Share #9 Posted May 18, 2013 how the hell did they manage that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamousNYLover Posted May 18, 2013 Share #10 Posted May 18, 2013 Didn't Shore Line East was affected by this also? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDTA Posted May 18, 2013 Share #11 Posted May 18, 2013 Hot damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo19 Posted May 18, 2013 Share #12 Posted May 18, 2013 Son of a bitch. From various sources though, there aren't any fatalities that are known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nostalgia Posted May 18, 2013 Share #13 Posted May 18, 2013 Didn't Shore Line East was affected by this also? Only the through trains from Stamford to New Haven and beyond to New London would be impacted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted May 18, 2013 Share #14 Posted May 18, 2013 Ban engineers, towermen, trains, and tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo19 Posted May 18, 2013 Share #15 Posted May 18, 2013 Ban engineers, towermen, trains, and tracks. Only solution I've heard so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom909 Posted May 18, 2013 Share #16 Posted May 18, 2013 Ban engineers, towermen, trains, and tracks. can charlene obernaur branch out and start a CDOTRU and blame mangano for this? joe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
46Dover Posted May 18, 2013 Share #17 Posted May 18, 2013 Really amazing and grateful there were no fatalities from this. Train cars are a different story. Kinda reminds me of one accident up in the Bronx many years ago when they had to lose 2 of the M2 cars, and wondering why I kept hearing different numbers in railroad rosters (244 original M2s, after said accident was down to 242) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FamousNYLover Posted May 18, 2013 Share #18 Posted May 18, 2013 That's cover by Tri-State Campaign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mtatransit Posted May 18, 2013 Share #19 Posted May 18, 2013 what a bad reputation to mnr. I heard the last accident was 1988 in mount vernon. Anyway I hope everyone is ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoSpectacular Posted May 18, 2013 Share #20 Posted May 18, 2013 Ban engineers, towermen, trains, and tracks. You know... this joke's starting to get pretty tired... Pretty sure this incident wasn't intentional... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHV9218 Posted May 18, 2013 Share #21 Posted May 18, 2013 You can see why there's gonna be a track repair closure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4P3607 Posted May 19, 2013 Share #22 Posted May 19, 2013 I hear they're going to take some M2's out of storage because of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qjtransitmaster Posted May 19, 2013 Share #23 Posted May 19, 2013 I hear they're going to take some M2's out of storage because of that. EWW I can't stand to see those things ouch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom909 Posted May 19, 2013 Share #24 Posted May 19, 2013 You can see why there's gonna be a track repair closure: nice find, those kids did a good job documenting the damage. i tip my cap to them joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom909 Posted May 19, 2013 Share #25 Posted May 19, 2013 EWW I can't stand to see those things ouch. oh ok, lets leave them in storage so that there will be a shortage of trains on the line and you can piss and moan about that. smfh joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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