Thirteen people were injured Thursday evening when another train derailed outside of New York City during rush hour.
Four people required medical treatment at a hospital after a Metro-North train derailed in Westchester around 5pm, according to NBC New York. At least one person was seen being taken off the train by stretcher.
According to MTA officials, the derailment led to significant delays after five of the 12 cars slid off the tracks not too far from the Rye station on the New Haven line.
The train was scheduled to get into Grand Central at 5.42pm, officials said.
Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino told NBC that the train appeared to be going around a curve at a speed faster than the 10mph allowed.
Astorino indicated that it was likely that the ‘excessive speed’ could have played a role in the derailment.
However, MTA would not confirm Astorino’s statement about the speed, but said a speed restriction was set for the curve Thursday because of hot weather, according to NBC.
Passengers were transferred to another train by 6.30pm.
According to the MTA’s Twitter page, crews worked well into the night to remove the derailed train.
The MTA said on Twitter that it’s optimistic that it will be a ‘relatively normal’ commute for Metro-North riders on Friday morning.
Transportation officials are investigating the cause of the accident.
In early April, Penn Station suffered its second derailment in less than two weeks when an NJ Transit train went off track, causing a handful of injuries and delays.
The Northeast Corridor train, which departed Trenton at 7.31am, had a ‘slow-speed derailment’ as it pulled into Track 9 around 9am.
Two weeks before that derailment, an Amtrak train had a slow-speed derailment on Track 6 at Penn Station.
The DC-bound train sideswiped an incoming NJ Transit locomot
Source: Thirteen people injured as a train derails outside of NYC | Daily Mail Online
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