2024 New York City Subway derailment
On January 4, 2024, a New York City Subway train derailed causing at least 26 people, mostly passengers, to suffer minor injuries. The incident happened when the first car of a 1 train collided with a disabled train that had been vandalized, both consisting of R62As, just north of the 96th Street station.[1] Around 300 people were evacuated off the train involved in the collision.[2]
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Date | January 4, 2024 c. 3:00 p.m. EST |
Location | Near 96th Street station, Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City |
Coordinates | 40°47′42″N 73°58′17″W / 40.79500°N 73.97139°W |
Country | United States |
Line | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line |
Operator | New York City Subway |
Incident type | Derailment |
Cause | Under investigation |
Statistics | |
Trains | 2 |
Passengers | Approximately 300 |
Deaths | 0 |
Injured | 25 |
The National Transportation Safety Board, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and other authorities are investigating the incident.[3][2] They said that the disabled train, which was heading uptown, had been taken out of service because a passenger repeatedly pulled the emergency brake, resulting in the train being stalled near West 79th Street. That train was taken out of service,[4][5] and the moving train, which was trying to bypass the stalled train using the express track, hit it while switching to the local track.
Incident
editAt 2:11 p.m. EST, train 1345 performed an emergency stop due to an unruly passenger pulling emergency brake valve cords on the first five railcars.[6] It was stated that a "good Samaritan" alerted two K-9 officers when the incident happened.[7] The operator was unable to reset the emergency brakes and subsequently moved to the 79th Street Station to drop off passengers. A railcar inspector was also unable to reset the brakes, forcing the train to be taken out of service and moved to a railyard by using the local track (track 4). The incident forced 1 trains to be rerouted via the express track (track 3).[6][7]
The out-of-service train was being operated from car six in the middle of the consist by a transit system supervisor. A flagger, who was in the lead car helping to coordinate the train's movement, said that he lost radio communications with the supervisor near the 96th Street station. Consequently, the supervisor did not receive the command to stop prior to the signal requiring them to do so at the end of the station. Trip stops did not activate due to the disabled brakes.[6]
The collision occurred around 3:00 p.m. EST when a northbound 1 train, train 1427, was switching from the express to the local track and sideswiped by train 1345. Two cars of train 1345 derailed while train 1427 had three cars derail. Train 1427 was carrying 300 passengers at the time and had to be evacuated.[6]
One car - 2176 - was written off and is being used for parts. The remaining four cars in the 5-car set were linked with car 1934, which was previously assigned to the 6.[8]
Aftermath
editThe derailment caused significant disruptions along the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. MTA officials said on January 5 that the disruptions would continue throughout the day, hoping that service would be restored later that day. 1 train service was suspended between 137th Street–City College and Times Square–42nd Street, 2 trains ran along the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, and 3 trains were suspended between 135th Street and Times Square–42nd Street. 1 trains ran express in the southbound direction while 3 trains ran local in the southbound direction between Times Square-42nd Street and Chambers Street for the duration of service disruptions. Some 4 and 5 trains made local stops in Brooklyn and 5 trains in the Bronx also ran local.[9]
On January 5, limited service was partially restored on the 1 and 3 routes (1 trains running express in the northbound direction from 96th Street to 137th Street–City College), although service was not restored between 96th Street and Times Square. Limited southbound 2 service was also restored, while northbound 2 service continued to run via the IRT Lexington Avenue Line.[10] On January 6, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the MTA would restore full service overnight that same day to the early morning of January 7, and service was fully restored at 4:45 a.m. the next morning.
Second derailment
editOn January 10, a second, unrelated derailment occurred around 12:20 p.m. when the fourth car of a northbound F train jumped the tracks between the Neptune Avenue and West Eighth Street–New York Aquarium stations in Brooklyn. All 37 passangers were evacuated from the train, and none were injured.[11][12]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Human error eyed in Manhattan subway train collision and derailment, investigators say". ABC7 New York. January 4, 2024. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
- ^ a b Ley, Ana; Meko, Hurubie (January 5, 2024). "Human Error Likely Caused Subway Crash and Derailings, Officials Say". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
- ^ Siff, Andrew; Dienst, Jonathan; Miller, Myles (January 4, 2024). "At least 20 injured after New York City subway derails and collides with another train, police say". NBC New York. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
- ^ "Human error eyed in Manhattan subway train collision and derailment, investigators say". ABC7. January 6, 2024.
- ^ Saltonstall, Gus (January 5, 2024). "UPDATE: UWS Trains Remain Delayed Friday After Subway Collision and Derailment Near West 96th Street: FDNY".
- ^ a b c d "New York City Transit Train-to-Train Collision Preliminary Report". www.ntsb.gov. Retrieved January 26, 2024.
- ^ a b "NYC train collision causes subway derailment; 24 injured". CBS News. January 4, 2024. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
- ^ "ICYMI: Governor Hochul Announces Full Service to be Restored on 1 2 3 Lines Overnight on West Side of Manhattan Following Subway Derailment". MTA.
- ^ "Upper West Side subway train derailment causes 'severe' service disruption". ABC7. January 4, 2024. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
- ^ "Human error eyed in Manhattan subway train collision and derailment, investigators say". ABC7 New York. January 4, 2024.
- ^ Bisram, Jennifer; Zanger, Jesse (January 10, 2024). "Subway derails on F train line in Brooklyn - CBS New York". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved January 10, 2024.
- ^ Seiwell, Emma; Simko-Bednarski, Evan (January 10, 2024). "MTA suspends F subway service in part of Brooklyn after Coney Island passenger train derailment". New York Daily News. Retrieved January 11, 2024.
External links
edit- Media related to January 2024 96th Street derailment at Wikimedia Commons