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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — More than 100 people were hurt Wednesday
when a Long Island Rail Road train hit a bumping block at the
end of a track at Atlantic Terminal in Brooklyn.

The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team to
investigate the incident, which happened around 8:15 a.m.
Wednesday as Train No. 2817 from Far Rockaway was pulling into
the terminal on Track 6.

The NTSB team arrived in New York City by 6 p.m. and began
examining the scene, according to NTSB investigator Jim
Southworth.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Tom Prendergast
said the train went up and over the bumping block. It then
crashed into an employee area on the platform.

Fire officials also said a piece of the rail pierced the bottom
of the train.

“Obviously, the train is supposed to stop short of the bumping
block,” Prednergast said. “It did not do that, so it’s one of
things we will look at as part of investigation.”

Transit officials said the lead wheel assembly and one other
axle derailed as a result of the impact.

The maximum speed permitted in the area just ahead of the
bumping block that the train hit is limited to 5 mph, Southworth
said.

Following the crash, the front train car was left with broken
windows and a bent metal door, while elsewhere in the terminal,
the bumping block was destroyed and a room for employees at the
end of the track was crushed, CBS2’s Dave Carlin reported.

Southworth said it is too early to determine whether to call the
damage “significant.”

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the train was moving slowly and added
that it “wasn’t really a derailment.”

“The train hit the bumping block and when it hit the bumping
block, the bumping block basically knocked it off the tracks,”
he said.

A bumper at the end of the line is supposed to stay untouched,
and the train is supposed to stop well before it.

The governor said authorities don’t yet know why the engineer
failed to stop.

“What happened with the operator, we don’t know and obviously
there will be an investigation to find out exactly what happened
and why the operator didn’t stop the train before it hit the
bumping block,” he said.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/01/04/lirr-train-derailment-
atlantic-terminal/

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