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A Long Island Rail Road train derailed near New Hyde Park Saturday night.
The derailment happened around 9:15 p.m., near the Second Avenue and Railroad Avenue.

the train partially lopsided with damage on the interior and exterior.
Service is suspended between Jamaica and Hicksville in both directions.
It was not immediately clear if there are any injuries.

http://pix11.com/2016/10/08/long-island-rail-road-train-derails-near-merillon-avenue-stop/

Looking for live - if someone gets it would you link it pls TIANew Hyde Park is about 19 miles (31 km) east of New York City.New Hyde Park is about 19 miles (31 km) east of New York City.

http://news.trust.org/item/20161009021031-h47ia


LIRR Train Derails, Injuries Reported

First responders have rushed to the scene Saturday night.




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Hopefully any injuries are minimal. At least it didn't happen during a full commuter run.
 
There may be a car trapped under the train. Per officials.
 
And this is the second time this week that all service has been suspended. The LIRR needs to get its act together.
 
The first three carriages of the 12-car Long Island Rail Road train came off the tracks about half a mile east of New Hyde Park Station, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.

work train reportedly caught fire after the collision.
Cuomo said about 600 passengers were on board

[video]http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/09/us/long-island-train-derailment/index.html[/video]

Eleven people have been taken to hospitals

 
Video

http://on.aol.com/video/more-than-20-people-injured-in-long-island-train-derailment-57f9fed1a6237871aacf4efa
http://on.aol.com/video/more-than-20-people-injured-in-long-island-train-derailment-57f9fed1a6237871aacf4efa
 
PLEASE NOTE THIS POST IS FROM FINDHG, I BOUGHT IT OVER TO THIS THREAD CAUSE THERE IS GOOD INFO , AS USUAL!!


All Of A Sudden We Felt The Train Derail'
CBS New York
Tonight, 11:40 live report from the scene

Gov Cuomo states MTA & LIRR staff on scene to determine cause and restore service asap. Suspended service going both ways, for now.
1st 3 car off the track about a half mile East of New Hyde Park Station and Maryland Ave Sta.
Train collided with a railroad work train on the tracks, that work train then caught fire
11 injured LIRR (Long Island Railroad), taken to local hospitals, some on stretchers

Martel, who was in the first car, said when the train hit something "everyone gasped."

"We knew we hit something but we didn't know how bad it was," he told the Associated Press."
[...]
The Federal Railroad Administration said it had investigators en route to the scene.
[...]
Long Island Rail Road trains have been involved in 72 accidents since Jan. 1, 2011, according to federal data, including 3 collisions and 15 derailments on tracks used for passenger service.



http://nypost.com/2016/10/08/29-hosp...rain-accident/

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...island-n662606

[...]
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Salvatore Arena said. The work train caught fire, he said.
[...]
mostly broken bones and cuts and bruises, officials said. Some of the injuries were described as serious but none appeared to be life threatening.
[...]
" was going normally, it was going at its normal speed, and then it started to shake, but that's sort of normal, and then everyone started to sort of scream — so I realized something was wrong," [a rider], told NBC New York.

And the train was really (going) back and forth and shaking ... and then I look out the window and I saw a spark or a fire type thing ... and then the train abruptly stopped and the car in front of mine was tilted, as if it wasn't fully on the track," she said.
[...]



By Ryan Bonner (Patch National Staff)
- October 9, 2016 12:23 am ET
http://patch.com/new-york/mineola/li...tially-derails > [video=twitter;784930710025080832]https://twitter.com/Marteljr/status/784930710025080832[/video]
with many images from the scene, including, from here:------------------------------ the "Conductor Car window smashed. Hit something on tracks" https://twitter.com/Marteljr/status/...rc=twsrc%5Etfw


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...road/91812146/
 
LIRR train derails in Nassau County; dozens injured
Associated Press via LOHUD

Oct 9 16, 6:39 am
quoted often elsewhere

29 injured in LIRR collision, derailment
NEWS 12 LI

Oct 916, 5:17 am


VIDEO: Mangano gives LIRR train derailment update
http://longisland.news12.com/multimedia/video-mangano-gives-lirr-train-derailment-update-1.12426860

County Executive Ed Mangano says 29 people were hospitalized, but none of the injuries are considered life-threatening.

"struck in the vicinity of the switch" and "excellent job" by first responders, 'very efficient'




Many passengers returning from Comic Con in the city
Official describes the derailment as due to the work train infringing upon the clearance between the trains (paraphrased badly) 6:05ish
http://player.radio.com/listen/station/1010-wins



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...nt-shuts-down-long-island-rail-road/91812146/
‏@LIRR
6:21AM Oyster Bay Jamaica 7:17AM canceled due susp service on br. Customers accommodated by bus service. To avoid delays, use Port Wash Br
2:01 AM - 9 Oct 2016


Thank you, as ever, CARIIS, am always a tad lost and you're always way ahead. Bringing the video over too.

[video=youtube;Hv9Fd7Ri_Xg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv9Fd7Ri_Xg[/video]


Eyewitness News
Sunday, October 09, 2016 01:15AM
Cefaan Kim reporting from NEW HYDE PARK, Long Island (WABC)[
with great video images of the scene and this for the latest info on trains http://www.mta.info/, a map and more



"The LIRR crew reported to the MTA police that they hit a LIRR work train. It is unclear if that work train was moving but witnesses say it caught on fire, with smoke then filling the commuter train.
[...]
Passengers describe the first responders arriving quickly, evacuating the train in an orderly manner. Still, many of the passengers were left shaken.
[...]
"I'm looking or trying to find out what happened, and that's when I saw the man who probably working, that he was he was trapped under the rubble. He was trying to free himself. He couldn't move - he was pinned," said Joel Werner.

The good news is that passenger says that worker was eventually escorted off the train, and appeared to be okay."


Derailed Train Injures 15 to 20, Disrupts Service on Long Island, New York
By REUTERS via NYT

OCT. 8, 2016, 11:33 P.M. E.D.T.
 
33 injured after work train ‘violates the space’ of LIRR passenger train
BY TALIA TIRELLA, PIX11 NEWS,

9:11AM, OCTOBER 9, 2016
with video from the scene

Seven workers and 26 passengers were injured. Four of those injuries are serious,
[...]
MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast said. Both were moving in the same direction and it was a "side-swiping type collision,"
[...]
"Frankly, we didn't lose any life, [that's] something to be thankful for," Cuomo said.





Cuomo: Maintenance train ‘violated the space’ of commuter cars
By David M. Schwartz, Alfonso A. Castillo and Candice Ferrette, Newsday

Updated October 9, 2016 8:53 AM


"33 people [injured] near the New Hyde Park station, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Sunday morning."


Earlier statement, still looking link for this morning's complete PC Gov's #



Cuomo to tour LIRR derailment scene Sunday morning
By David M. Schwartz, Alfonso A. Castillo and Candice Ferrette, Newsday

October 9, 2016 8:11 AM


Service Changes, Delays After LIRR Train Derails In New Hyde Park
Magdelena Doris, CBS 2 NY



[url]http://www.wbal.com/article/194996/110/commuter-train-derails-east-of-nyc-injuring-29


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Gov Cuomo: 'the State is bringing in extra resources for getting the scene cleared and service back on track' paraphrased roughly 9:12 am
http://longisland.news12.com/news/news-12-long-island-live-stream-1.3923191 live[/URL]

9:30 Investigation begun, by Fed Railroad something (NTSB OTW), have to use a crane to get the trains back up on the track, will try to clear track before tomorrow morn.

9:35 'The silver ling is more people weren't seriously hurt.' Gov Cuomo

9:50



OT
(cool announcement about the Killing Season at 9:23 am:) and @ 9:52 am with more details
 
[FONT=&amp]A Long Island Rail Road train derailment that injured dozens on Saturday was likely caused by a work train that was violating the space of the passenger train, Gov. Cuomo said Sunday morning.[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]“It appears that the work train was violating the space from the revenue train, that the work train was overlapping into the clearance area of that train and that’s what caused the side swap and that’s what caused the derailment,” said Cuomo, who visited the Nassau County site of the accident.[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]Cuomo said there was a splatter of yellow paint visible where the first collision occurred.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...k-train-violation-article-1.2823791?cid=bitly[/FONT]
 
MTA Chairman Thomas Prendergast says 33 injured in LIRR derailment Saturday night, including 7 employees; 4 seriously injured - NBC New York

[FONT=&amp] one person sent to have surgery yesterday and another with broken bones.

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[FONT=&amp]“The train is seriously off the tracks,” he said at the press conference. “It’s in a dangerous, precarious position.”

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[FONT=&amp]An eastbound commuter train sideswiped a work train traveling in the same direction at about 9:10 p.m., causing the commuter train to derail and the work train to catch fire, according to Nassau County police and the MTA.

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[FONT=&amp]the train was going normally, it was going at its normal speed, and then it started to shake, but that’s sort of normal, and then everyone started to sort of scream –

[/FONT]
[FONT=&amp]“And the train was really (going) back and forth and shaking … and then I look out the window and I saw a spark or a fire type thing … and then the train abruptly stopped and the car in front of mine was tilted, as if it wasn’t fully on the track.”[/FONT][FONT=&amp]



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[FONT=&amp]The LIRR is the busiest commuter rail in North America, carrying an average of 300,000 people each weekday.[/FONT]

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