One person is dead and at least six others are injured after a train crash caused by a fallen tree in New Jersey.
There were a total of 45 passengers aboard the River Line train early this morning, which crashed just before 6 a.m. when part of a tree fell over the tracks.
As a result, all trains between Roebling and Bordentown have been suspended.
Emergency workers were working to remove the fallen tree from the path of the train.
It is currently unclear whether the injured have been taken to hospital.
There were 45 passengers aboard the River Line train this morning. Pictured: The fallen tree on the track near Mansfield Township that caused the crash just before 6 a.m. Monday
The front of the train (photo) was damaged during the ordeal. It is currently unclear whether the injured have been taken to hospital
River Line of New Jersey said in a statement on
“A replacement bus service will be offered.”
This comes just two months after two freight trains collided in a shocking head-on crash in Boulder, Colorado.
The trains collapsed on the tracks and the two conductors driving the trains were hospitalized with minor injuries.
And last November, 38 people were injured when a passenger trunk collided with a snowplow on a busy shuttle near downtown Chicago.
Fifteen ambulances were dispatched in November 2023 to the scene of the accident between two trains on the same line, 1,000 feet outside Howard Station in the Rogers Park neighborhood.
As a result, all trains between Roebling and Bordentown have been suspended
Chicago Fire Department officials said all 38 people aboard the two-car train were checked by medics and a two-year-old was among the four children injured.
Twenty-three people were taken to hospital and another fifteen were treated at the scene.
“I just heard a horrible booming sound,” said Shayla Smith, who heard the crash as she boarded a Purple Line train near Howard last year.
The CTA train was “traveling at a normal speed” when it struck the snowplow, which was “not traveling very fast at all,” said CFD district chief Robert Jurewicz.
Both were heading in the same direction, but the train was traveling at about 30 miles per hour, while the crew was at a “slow crawl” of about 10 miles per hour, his colleague Larry Langford said.
“The train was much faster and came after the team.”