Twenty people were injured in a collision between two subway trains in New York City on Thursday. The collision caused one of the subway trains to veer off the track. Seven passengers and a crew member required hospital treatment.
A subway train carrying 300 passengers collided near the 96th Street station at around 3 p.m. local time with an out-of-service Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway train carrying only four subway employees. The collision and subsequent derailment caused a massive afternoon rush-hour subway gridlock that affected all of Manhattan, authorities said.
Human error
An investigation must show whether there was human error. The initial investigation results do not indicate a defect in the equipment. New York City’s aging subway system has suffered more frequent power outages, signal problems and other disruptions in recent years.
“It was just really scary,” a 19-year-old passenger on her way to her home in Brooklyn told the New York Daily News. “All kinds of things flew through the air. My head first hit the window of the door and then a post.
“Fortunately, no one was seriously injured,” a police spokesman said at a news conference. “But it is of course not the intention for two trains to collide. We are going to get to the bottom of this.”
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