A pleasant Saturday evening in New Hyde Park was disrupted by a major Long Island Railroad (LIRR) train accident, one that injured 33 passengers, including four with what Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) officials said were serious in nature.
The accident was a train collision. At around 9 p.m. on Oct. 1, LIRR officials said that a passenger train struck a work train, forcing the passenger train to go off the tracks.
According to Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano, 29 people were treated in hospitals for such injuries such as concussions and broken bones.
Governor Andrew Cuomo added that the train, which contained 12 cars and 600 passengers was heading eastbound on the LIRR’s when the first three cars derailed east of the New Hyde Park station.
The accident forced a temporary suspension of LIRR service in both directions on the New Hyde Park line.
The accident came only days after a similar collision in Hoboken, NJ injured more than 100 people, with one fatality. After that accident, Senator Charles Schumer (D—NY) called for inward-facing cameras to be installed in all New York City metropolitan area railroad systems as a way to avoid future accidents.
