Woman who died was on the platform and not in the train itself. Meantime, up to a hundred people are injured with many of those critical. A look at the aftermath as the commuter train slammed into a new jersey terminal at the height of morning rush hour. People running for their lives in the midst of collapsed canopy and twisted metal. Passengers reported the crowded train barreling into the train station at full speed. The train felt like it would never stop. It didnt slow down. It didnt bke nancy hoboken was the last stop scheduled to arrive just after 8 30. There were approximately 250 people on the train this time of day. It was the 8 38 into hoboken. We are still determining the cause of the accident. Im not going to stand here and guess. Nancy instead, people on the train and on the platform scrambled to get to safety. The people in front of me were badly injured. Then we just heard people screaming in the first car. They were trapped. They couldnt get out. Managed to get us off
Theyre honored today at the white house. Get to doy people get to do that, sit there and wait for the president to come to you . To say, thank you. This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley, reporting tonight from washington. Pelley this is our western edition. Each day, more than a million and a half people commute into manhattan, in a complex choreography that moves before the sun. But this morning, a new Jersey Transit train that should have been crawling into its final stop, instead bolted through a barrier and rammed into the waiting area of hoboken terminal, collapsing part of the centuryold building. Only one person was killed, but 108 others, including the engineer, were injured. Jim axelrod is in hoboken, just across the hudson from manhattan. Reporter it was the height of rush hour this morning in a station 15,000 commuters pass through each day when, at 8 45, chaos engulfed the new Jersey Transit terminal in hoboken. This is what train number 1614, stuffed with commuter
John, here with the latest totals we have as far as those who have succumbed to their injuries. 75 injuries. 2 critical. 12 serious injuries. We know there are two hospitals locally, one being a Trauma Center that the victims have been taken to. The governor christie out of town but on his way to the scene now. He is saying that everyone has been moved from the train at this point. Now, expecting an official briefing right here behind me in one hour from now. So we can actually get the facts and the figures. But heres what we do know. It was 8 45 this morning. Just the height of rush hour in hoboken, new jersey. Just across the river from new york city. And it was a train that was coming in from spring valley. And that train according to a new york transit worker, new Jersey Transit worker, said it was going at a very high rate of speed. So that the front car became airborne and just went straight into the train terminal at that point. It was a very fast situation. Fastmoving, and peop
The crash. Lets listen in right here. Most likely it comes on. It will stop that train, everything. But the engineer has sole Manual Control of that train as its coming into the terminal. If he has his hand on that throttle, can that override the alert system, Safety System . Actually, the alerter wont come on if you are operating. It only comes on, say in case of, say he passes out, heart attack, anything, god forbid, that alerter will come on. Actually pulling into a station like that, any station, really, with a bumper, your speed should be like five to three, one mile an hour, ready to stop right away. If you look from there, coming in there, you got to be down to ten, no more miles an hour coming in there. I will assume something happened to that engineer. It had to. What do you think he was going . When i came out of Dunkin Donuts 30 seconds after it happened, i looked to the right, i just saw the train in the building, i went whoa, that train had to come in about 30 miles an hou
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