Around 150 passengers from a New York subway train were rescued by firefighters shortly before 4 p.m. this Tuesday.
The J train stopped shortly before the Sutphin Boulevard-Archer Avenue station in Jamaica, Queens. Firefighters had to use ladders to reach the train cars and help passengers get out. So far no injuries have been reported.
Unofficially it is believed that the train was hit by an object or that an object on the rails hit the train which had to brake emergency.
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Aside from the injured passengers, the accident that occurred this Wednesday around 8:20 a.m. (Eastern time), left debris, smoke and a broken window on the train.
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The causes of the accident are under investigation. But New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Tom Prendergast confirmed that the train was supposed to stop in the designated area and did not do so.
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This is what the outskirts of the Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn looked like on Wednesday morning after the Long Island Railroad train accident.
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Officials on the scene estimated that between 600 and 700 passengers were on the train, like the one shown in this image.
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2023-10-24 20:14:00
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