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Photos: Investigators Study Charred Remains Of Burned Metro-North Train
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John Del Signore
Published Feb 5, 2015
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The National Transportation Safety Board has moved the wreckage from the horrific Metro-North crash in Valhalla to a trainyard in White Plains, where investigators are combing through the evidence for clues about the fatal collision. Five people in the first train car were killed when the train struck an SUV that was blocking the tracks, sending the third rail "skewering" into the car and setting it ablaze.
NTSB Vice Chairman Robert Sumwalt said the car was "totally destroyed. You can picture the shell of the car and inside is nothing but ashes and debris and then having six or seven sections of the third rail just stacked up inside of it—just devastating."
Investigators say they still have no answers as to why Ellen Brody and her SUV were on the tracks at the crossing, which some train operators have described as "particularly dangerous." Sumwalt told reporters today, "The big question everyone wants to know is: Why was this vehicle in the crossing?"
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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