“We now know that not only was this tragedy completely preventable, it was a horrific accident just waiting to happen on so many levels,” said Philadelphia attorney Tom Kline, one of the lawyers representing the family. MORE: Hoboken derailment victim had 'genuine heart' The family of Fabiola Bittar de Kroon is seeking unspecified compensatory damages in the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Hudson County.ĭe Kroon, 34, was killed by falling debris while standing on a platform just minutes after dropping off her 2-year-old daughter at day care. In a statement after the crash, NJ Transit said the train was traveling from Spring Valley, N.Y., on the Pascack Valley Line. HOBOKEN - The family of a woman killed when an NJ Transit commuter train derailed and barreled into a busy rail terminal has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the agency. After an investigation by the Fire Department that took about half an hour, that service was restored at 9:21 a.m., the authority said.Watch Video: Witnesses describe Hoboken train crash Toward the end of the morning rush, service on the 7 line was briefly suspended because of smoke in a tunnel under the East River. There were no immediate reports of serious injuries, but New Jersey Transit and Amtrak had service. Appropriate disciplinary action will be taken as necessary pending the conclusion of the ongoing investigation.” New Jersey Transit said one of its trains derailed while pulling into the station at a slow speed. July 6th, 2017 at 9:48pm Northeast Corridor Train service is suspended in and out of Penn Station New York due to a minor NJ Transit train derailment. have zero tolerance for worker errors that cause service problems. The Transportation Authority blamed the wayward garbage on operator error and took a hard line in a statement: “New York City Transit and the M.T.A. Service on the W line was suspended between Herald Square and South Ferry in Manhattan into the afternoon rush hours. NJ Transit resumed regularly-scheduled train service out of New York City's Penn Station after a slow-speed derailment led to suspension of operations at the nation's train station for. The N and Q trains had to switch to the R line, and all three of those lines were delayed in both directions. Some of them posted pictures of the frustrated masses at the Court Square station. As the delays rippled across the system, would-be passengers filled platforms, and some stations overflowed with commuters whose tolerance for frequent delays was tested once again. That mess affected eight other lines - the B, D, E, F, M, N, R and W. An Amtrak train traveling from Boston to Washington had a minor derailment Friday morning as it passed through New York Penn Station and sideswiped a NJ Transit train. An Amtrak train bound for Washington, D.C., had a minor derailment as it was leaving New York’s Penn Station at the height of Friday’s morning rush, bumping.
and again at the DeKalb Avenue station in Brooklyn about 45 minutes later, according to the M.T.A.
The trash caused a southbound Q train to get stuck at Canal Street at about 6 a.m. The derailed train was moved by 6:10 a.m., and service was back on schedule at about 6:30 a.m., they said.Īt about the same time, some poorly secured trash fell off a garbage train near Union Square in Manhattan, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said. No one was injured, but New Jersey Transit service in and out of the station was delayed by about 20 minutes, railroad officials said. An Amtrak engineer was moving the empty train, which had been parked in a yard at the station, when its engine derailed and left its cars blocking four tracks, according to Christina Leeds, a spokeswoman for Amtrak. The bad start to the day came just before 4 a.m., when wheels on a New Jersey Transit train came off a track inside Penn Station, the third such mishap for New Jersey Transit in recent months. Train smashes into New Jerseys Hoboken station ABC says more than 100 hurt. Many rail commuters had to endure a torturous morning on Wednesday, after a train derailed in Pennsylvania Station and several subway lines were caught up in delays that led to crushing crowds in some stations. PATH trains said on Twitter that due to a NJ Transit train derailment at Hoboken station, all of its services were also suspended.
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