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L.I.R.R. Derailment Injures Dozens in Brooklyn L.I.R.R. Derailment Injures More Than 70 in Brooklyn
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A Long Island Rail Road train derailed in Brooklyn during rush hour on Wednesday morning, injuring dozens of people and disrupting rush hour commutes around the city, the authorities said. A Long Island Rail Road train derailed in Brooklyn during rush hour on Wednesday, injuring dozens of people and disrupting morning commutes around the city, the authorities said.
In a statement, the Fire Department said 37 people were being treated for injuries, which were described as not life-threatening. The Fire Department said 76 people were injured.
Justin Bennett, a spokesman for the city’s office of emergency management, said the derailment had occurred on track six at the Atlantic Terminal on Flatbush Avenue. The office received the report from the police shortly after 8 a.m., Mr. Bennett said. Jim Long, a spokesman for the department, said, “We don’t have anyone with any serious, life-threatening injuries.”
In a statement, the office announced that the derailment had caused traffic delays and road closures near the Brooklyn station, as well as the expected transit delays. Mr. Long said that as the train came into Atlantic Terminal at 8:20 a.m. on Track 6, it “came off the rail.”
The first car on the train derailed, an employee of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority who was at the scene said. The Long Island Rail Road is part of the authority.
The employee, who was not authorized to speak about a continuing investigation and declined to be identified, said the train had come into the station and went past the area where it would normally stop. It hit the bumping block, a barrier meant to stop a train in an emergency.
The employee said the impact with the block lifted the first car up off the rails.
“I saw people bleeding, a lot of leg injuries,” an unidentified woman at the terminal told ABC News.
The woman said the train usually goes slowly when it reaches the terminal. “I noticed it was going much faster than usual, and as I thought that, the crash happened,” she said. “My face hit the seat in front of me. So did my knees.”
Justin Bennett, a spokesman for the city’s office of emergency management, said in a statement that the derailment had caused traffic delays and road closings near the Brooklyn station, as well as the transit delays.
The Long Island Rail Road carries about 300,000 customers each day, according to its website.