HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) " The Latest on a commuter train that crashed into a station in New Jersey, killing one person and injuring more than 100 others (all times local):

7:50 p.m.

New Jersey Transit has identified the engineer who was behind the controls of a commuter train that crashed at a station, killing one person and injuring more than 100 others.

Spokeswoman Nancy Snyder says Thomas Gallagher was the engineer of the train in Thursday's crash.

The National Transportation Safety Board says Gallagher was released from a hospital and has cooperated with authorities. She says investigators will be interviewing him.

Snyder says Gallagher has worked for the transit agency for 29 years. A union roster shows he started as an engineer about 18 years ago.

Police escorted a woman to Gallagher's home in New Jersey to pick up some things earlier in the afternoon. Neighbors describe Gallagher and his family as good people.

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6:40 p.m.

A former employer of a woman killed when a New Jersey Transit commuter train crashed at a station says it's "profoundly saddened" by her death.

Fabiola Bittar de Kroon worked for software company SAP in its legal department in Brazil but left earlier this year. She was standing in a waiting area at the Hoboken (HOH'-boh-kehn) station when the train crashed through a barrier Thursday morning. She was killed by debris.

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SAP spokesman Andy Kendzie says the company is "shaken by the news" of the crash, which injured more than 100 people. He says the company expresses its deepest condolences to de Kroon's family and friends and to all those affected by the "tragic event."

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating. It says the train's engineer has been released from a hospital and is cooperating with investigators.

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5:45 p.m.

The National Transportation Safety Board says the engineer in the fatal New Jersey train crash has been released from the hospital and is cooperating with investigators.

NTSB Vice Chairwoman T. Bella Dinh-Zarr said Thursday that the engineer involved in the crash at the Hoboken station was no longer in the hospital. She says investigators will be interviewing him.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had said at a news conference earlier Thursday that the engineer was in critical condition.

One woman on the platform was killed and more than 100 other people were injured in the crash during morning rush hour.

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5:40 p.m.

The National Transportation Safety Board says the investigation into the New Jersey train crash has been hampered by safety issues.

NTSB Vice Chairwoman T. Bella Dinh-Zarr said Thursday that the canopy of the more than 100-year-old train station building in Hoboken is resting on top of the car that sped off the tracks and the NTSB is waiting until it's safe to go into that area.

She says water has been leaking in all day and there may also be asbestos contamination because of the age of the building.

Dinh-Zarr said investigators have access to the train's locomotive and expect to pull the train's data recorder Thursday night.

She says the train's engineer was controlling the locomotive from a control cab in the train's front passenger car.

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5:25 p.m.

A second New Jersey hospital says seven victims of the train crash are still receiving treatment there and are in stable condition.

Hoboken University Medical Center said Thursday that it received 23 patients after the train crash in Hoboken during morning rush hour. It says all but seven of those patients have since been released.

Jersey City Medical Center said earlier Thursday that it had received 66 patients and all but 13 had already been released. The 13 are trauma patients, and the hospital says none of them are critically injured.

A 34-year-old Hoboken woman who was standing on the platform when the train came barreling in was the sole fatality of the crash. The state medical examiner's office identified her as Fabiola Bittar de Kroon.

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5:15 p.m.

The only person who died in the New Jersey train crash has been identified as a 34-year-old woman from Hoboken.

The state medical examiner's office said Thursday that the victim is Fabiola Bittar de Kroon. Gov. Chris Christie says she had been standing on the platform when the train came barreling in and she was struck by debris.

The New Jersey Transit train ran off the end of its track as it pulled into the Hoboken station during rush hour Thursday morning, smashing through a concrete-and-steel bumper.

Cries and screams could be heard in the wreckage as emergency workers rushed to reach commuters in the tangle of twisted metal and dangling wires.

More than 100 other people were injured. Christie says no one else is expected to die.

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5 p.m.

The mayor of a New Jersey city where a train crashed during the morning rush hour says the woman who died was from Hoboken.

Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer confirmed Thursday that the sole victim of the crash was a resident of Hoboken. More than 100 other people were injured, including nearly 75 who were sent to hospitals.

Zimmer says her thoughts and prayers go out to the victim's family. She says that she can't give any more information on the woman's identity but noted that "we're in great sadness over that loss."

Gov. Chris Christie said earlier that the woman had been standing on the platform and was hit by debris. But he says most of the people who were injured were on the train.

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4:50 p.m.

A New Jersey hospital says it has 13 patients in guarded condition after a train crash in Hoboken.

Jersey City Medical Center says it treated 66 people, including 13 who were trauma patients. The hospital says none of them are critically injured.

The hospital says 53 patients were walk-ins with minor injuries. All of them have been released.

The update from the hospital came hours after a New Jersey Transit train crashed through a barrier at the busy Hoboken station and lurched across the waiting area during the Thursday morning rush hour. One woman on the platform was killed, and more than 100 other people were injured.

Gov. Chris Christie says investigators will be looking into why the train came into the station at a high rate of speed.

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3:50 p.m.

PATH train service to the Hoboken, New Jersey, rail station from New York City has been restored after a deadly train crash.

The transit agency says service from Hoboken to 33rd Street and the World Trade Center stations, however, remains suspended until further notice.

The New Jersey Transit train crashed into the Hoboken Terminal during the Thursday morning rush hour, killing one woman and injuring more than 100 other people.

Authorities are investigating the cause of the crash. The train was speeding as it entered the station.

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2:45 p.m.

The presidential nominees are extending their best wishes to the victims of the New Jersey train crash.

Democrat Hillary Clinton said from Iowa on Thursday that she was sending her "thoughts and prayers" to the victims and their families. She says the crash was personal to her as a New York resident, and she called it a "horrible accident."

Republican Donald Trump tweeted, "My condolences to those involved in today's horrible accident in NJ and my deepest gratitude to all of the amazing first responders."

The New Jersey Transit train crashed into the Hoboken Terminal during the Thursday morning rush hour, killing one woman and injuring more than 100 other people.

Authorities are investigating the cause of the crash. The train was speeding as it entered the station.

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2:20 p.m.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says most of the injuries in the Hoboken train crash came from people aboard the train, not standing on the platform.

However, Christie noted Thursday at a news conference that the one person who died was a woman who was standing on the platform and was struck by debris. He says 108 people were injured.

Christie says there is no reason to believe there will be any more fatalities.

Christie and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo say the New Jersey Transit train was going too fast when it came into the station Thursday morning, but it's unclear why.

Christie says there's no indication so far that the crash was anything but a "tragic accident," but he noted it was too early to make assumptions.

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2 p.m.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says the engineer involved in the train crash in Hoboken is in critical condition.

Christie said Thursday at a news conference that the engineer was cooperating with investigators.

The New Jersey Transit train crashed during rush hour Thursday morning. Witnesses reported that it came speeding into the station and hit a concrete-and-steel bumper. It apparently knocked out pillars as it ground to a halt in a covered waiting area, collapsing a section of the roof onto the first car.

Christie says one woman was killed in the crash and 108 people were injured. Authorities had previously said one person was killed and more than 100 people were injured.

Authorities say the cause of the crash wasn't immediately clear.

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1:50 p.m.

A New Jersey Transit machinist at the Hoboken train station when a train crashed says he saw it coming in at a high rate of speed and strike a bumper block, which caused the front car to go into the air.

Michael Larson says the train traveled about 40 feet after going airborne and hit the wall of a waiting room at the station in New Jersey at morning rush hour Thursday.

Larson says the bumper blocks are made of concrete and steel.

Gov. Chris Christie says one person was killed. Area hospitals report that 74 patients were being treated, including three who suffered traumatic injuries.

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1:20 p.m.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has canceled a trip to Israel for Shimon Peres' funeral because of the deadly commuter train crash in New Jersey.

The Democratic governor had planned to pay his respects to the former Israeli leader on Friday. Instead he will tour the crash site with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Cuomo says a large number of New Yorkers were on the train when it crashed into the station in Hoboken. One person was killed and 74 others were hospitalized.

He says New York State Police are assisting in the response to the crash, along with officials from other local, state and federal agencies.

Cuomo says the crash will likely cause "major delays" into New York City.

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1:15 p.m.

Hospitals in New Jersey say they have received 74 patients from the Hoboken train crash.

A spokesman for Jersey City Medical Center says it got 51 injured. Three are trauma patients in serious condition, while eight others are in less serious condition. Forty others were brought in by bus, were triaged and were being treated in its cafeteria.

Officials at Hoboken University Medical Center say they received 22 patients. Three of them had broken bones, while the rest had bumps, cuts and other minor injuries.

The two hospitals are the primary places taking those injured in the crash, which killed one person. Another patient was taken to Christ Hospital in Jersey City.

The New Jersey Transit train overran the end of the tracks in Hoboken and smashed into the station.

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11:55 a.m.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says no one is believed to be trapped on the commuter train that crashed in Hoboken.

Christie spoke Thursday to Fox News, more than two hours after the New Jersey Transit train overran the end of the line and crashed into the Hoboken station. He confirms that there has been one fatality. More than 100 others were injured.

The governor says he, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and New Jersey Transit are coordinating on the response.

Christie says all victims are being taken to one of two hospitals in the area: Jersey City Medical Center and Point Care Hospital Center in Hoboken. He says loved ones should contact the hospitals directly to get information on family members who may be hospitalized.

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11:40 a.m.

The New Jersey Transit train that crashed in Hoboken, killing one person and injuring more than 100 others, was not equipped with a technology that is designed to slow speeding trains.

U.S. railroads are under government orders to install the system called positive train control, but the work has gone more slowly than expected. The deadline has been repeatedly extended and is now Dec. 31, 2018.

Bob Chipkevich, who formerly headed the National Transportation Safety Board's train crash investigations section, says the agency will be looking at whether the train was exceeding speed limits, both when it was approaching the station and when it entered the station area.

Last month, the Federal Railroad Administration said New Jersey Transit had a lot of work yet to do on installing the necessary equipment. New Jersey Transit responded that the report didn't reflect the work it had accomplished.

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11 a.m.

A state lawmaker says one person was killed and two critically injured when a commuter train plowed into the Hoboken station.

Democratic Assemblyman Raj Mukherji, who represents Hoboken, said a transit official confirmed the death to him. A New Jersey Transit spokeswoman, Jennifer Nelson, earlier said that more than 100 people were injured in the crash.

The train from New York crashed during the Thursday morning rush hour. It caused serious damage to both the train and station. Witnesses reported injuries, including one woman who was trapped under concrete and many people bleeding.

The National Transportation Safety Board is opening an investigation into the crash, and is sending a team of investigators to the scene.

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10:20 a.m.

A New Jersey Transit spokeswoman says that more than 100 people were injured, some critically, when a commuter train plowed into the Hoboken station.

The train from New York crashed during the Thursday morning rush hour. It caused serious damage to both the train and station. Witnesses reported injuries, including one woman who was trapped under concrete and many people bleeding.

The spokeswoman, Jennifer Nelson, says she doesn't know yet how fast the train was going when it ran into the rail bumper at the end of the line.

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10 a.m.

A New Jersey Transit spokeswoman says that a commuter train that crashed into a train station in Hoboken was coming from Spring Valley, New York, on the Pascack Valley Line.

Nancy Snyder says there were multiple injuries, but it's not clear how many, after Train No. 1614 crashed into the Hoboken train station around 8:45 a.m. She says the train left Spring Valley at 7:23 a.m. Thursday.

TV footage and photos from the scene Thursday morning show damage to the rail car and extensive structural damage to the Hoboken station.

A spokesman for the Federal Railroad Administration says that investigators have been dispatched to the scene.

Passengers heading to New York City transfer from New Jersey Transit trains at Hoboken to board other trains and ferries to get into Manhattan.

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9:55 a.m.

A passenger says the commuter train that crashed in New Jersey was crowded and plowed through the platform at the end of the line.

Bhagyesh Shah told NBC New York he saw a lot of people bleeding and a woman pinned under concrete Thursday morning at New Jersey Transit's Hoboken station.

Shah says he was in the back of the train but that many people use the front cars, since it makes for an easier exit. He says the train plowed into the platform. He says it lasted only a couple seconds, "but it felt like an eternity."

He tells the TV station that passengers in the second car broke the emergency windows to get out.

Images from the scene show damage to the rail car and extensive structural damage, but there's no official word on the number of injuries.

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9:30 a.m.

A commuter train has crashed into a rail station in New Jersey during the morning rush hour, causing serious damage.

TV footage and photos from the scene Thursday morning show damage to the rail car and extensive structural damage to the Hoboken station.

Radio station WFAN anchor John Minko told New York radio station WINS that the train "went right through the barriers and into the reception area."

Rail service was suspended in and out of Hoboken, which is 7 miles outside New York City.

There is no word so far on any injuries.

Emergency crews are arriving on the scene.

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9:10 a.m.

A commuter train has crashed into a rail station in New Jersey.

Emergency crews are arriving on the scene in Hoboken on Thursday morning.

Photos from the scene show a damaged New Jersey Transit rail car inside the station, surrounded by debris.

There is no word on the damage or any possible injuries.

Hoboken is across the river from New York City.</s>A woman was killed and 108 others were injured when a crowded commuter train crashed through a barrier at the busy Hoboken, N.J. station and lurched across the waiting area during the height of the Thursday morning rush hour.

The New Jersey State Medical Examiner's office identified the deceased victim as Fabiola Bittar de Kroon, 34, of Hoboken. She worked for software company SAP in its legal department in Brazil but left earlier this year. SAP spokesman Andy Kendzie said the company was "shaken by the news" of de Koon's death and offered condolences to her family, friends and all those affected by the "tragic event."

Earlier, New Jersey Gov. Chris Chrstie told reporters the woman who died had been standing on a nearby platform and was hit by debris from the crash. The New Jersey Transit train ran off the end of its track as it pulled into the station, smashing through a concrete-and-steel bumper. It apparently knocked out pillars as it ground to a halt in the waiting area, collapsing a section of the station roof onto the train.

Scene at Hoboken NJ Transit Terminal right now. Tons of police and first responders. https://t.co/GSpyGFO9rx — Noah Zucker (@noahlz) September 29, 2016

"All of a sudden, there was an abrupt stop and a big jolt that threw people out of their seats. The lights went out, and we heard a loud crashing noise like an explosion" as the roof fell, said Ross Bauer, who was sitting in the third or fourth car when the train entered the historic 109-year-old station, a bustling hub for commuters heading to New York City. "I heard panicked screams, and everyone was stunned."

Commuter Jim Finan, of River Edge, N.J., told Fox News' "America's Newsroom" that the train barreled into the station in "at full tilt" and "never slowed down."

Massive train crash at #Hoboken Path Station. Injuries reported. Train apparently ran full force into station. pic.twitter.com/rgt9pycnL4 — Nicolette (@NewsNicolette) September 29, 2016

William Blaine, an engineer for a company that runs freight trains, was inside the station and ran over to help. He told the Associated Press he saw the train's engineer slumped over the controls.

Finan described the crash as feeling like he was "in an off-road vehicle," adding, "It was bumpy. You were getting bounced around and then slammed forward."

"People were running up the stairs to get out," with "others pushing to get through first," WFAN Radio sportscaster John Minko, who was at the station, told Fox News.

Late Thursday, New Jersey Transit identified the engineer as Thomas Gallagher, a 29-year agency veteran. A union roster shows Gallagher started as an engineer about 18 years ago.

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Vice Chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr told reporters Thursday afternoon that Gallagher had been released from the hospital and was cooperating with investigators.

"We have no indication that this is anything other than a tragic accident," Christie said.

"The train came in at much too high rate of speed," Christie added, "and the question is: 'Why is that?'"

Some witnesses said they didn't hear or feel the brakes being applied before the crash.

Dinh-Zarr said investigators were being hampered by safety issues, but were expected to retrieve the train's data recorder Thursday evening. She added that water has been leaking in all day and there may also be asbestos contamination because of the age of the station building.



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People pulled concrete off bleeding victims and passengers kicked out the windows amid crying and screaming. Jersey City Medical Center received 66 patients from the crash, according to officials who said 13 people were in "guarded" condition. Doctors said they expected all the remaining patients to survive.

Hoboken University Medical Center received 23 patients, all but seven of whom had been released Thursday evening. The injuries included broken bones and head wounds. Another patient was recovering at Christ Hospital in Jersey City.

"When you see the damage and destruction, and you know how many people were on the platform, it's amazing there was only one fatality," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told Fox News' "Your World with Neil Cavuto." "It could have been much worse."

Speaking to Fox News, Christie praised the "seamless, professional" response from emergency workers in the minutes and hours after the crash.

None of NJ Transit's trains is fully equipped with positive train control, a safety system designed to prevent accidents by overriding the engineer and automatically slowing or stopping trains that are going too fast. Positive train control relies on radio and GPS signals to monitor trains' positions and speed.

The NTSB has been pressing for some version of the technology since at least 1990, and the industry is under government orders to install it, but regulators have repeatedly extended the deadline at railroads' request. The target date is now the end of 2018.

"While we are just beginning to learn the cause of this crash, it appears that once again an accident was not prevented because the trains our commuters were riding lacked positive train control," said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, D-N.Y. "The longer we fail to prioritize investing in rail safety technology, the more innocent lives we put in jeopardy."

But both Cuomo and Christie said that it is too soon to say whether such technology would have made a difference in the Hoboken crash.

Over the past 20 years, the NTSB has listed the lack of positive train control as a contributing factor in 25 crashes. Those include the Amtrak wreck last year in Philadelphia in which a speeding train ran off the rails along a curve. Eight people were killed.

NJ Transit trains do have an alerter system — a sort of dead man's device — that can sound a loud alarm and then stop a train if the engineer goes approximately 15 to 20 seconds without adjusting the controls. But it is not clear whether that would have made a difference either.

The train was not equipped with an inward-facing camera in the cab that could give a fuller picture of the operator's actions.

The train consisted of four passenger cars and a locomotive at the rear. Passengers said it was crowded, with standing room only in the typically popular first few cars, but authorities had no immediate estimate of how many were aboard.



The Hoboken terminal handles more than 50,000 train and bus riders daily, many of them headed into New York City. After arriving at Hoboken, they take ferries or PATH commuter trains across the river to the city.

More than 100,000 people use NJ Transit trains to commute from New Jersey into New York every day. With the Hoboken station still closed as of Thursday evening, NJ Transit trains out of Penn Station in Manhattan were crowded with commuters forced to find a detour around Hoboken.

"My 30-minute commute is turning into at least an hour and a half," said Steve Malfitano, who had to go into New York just to get from one New Jersey city to another. But he added: "It is what it is. It's better than what those people had to go through."

In 2011, a PATH commuter train crash at the Hoboken station injured more than 30 people. The train slammed into bumpers at the end of the tracks on a Sunday morning.



FoxNews.com's Cristina Corbin, Fox News' Kathleen Foster, Rick Leventhal, Bryan Llenas and The Associated Press contributed to this report.</s>At least one person died and more than 100 people were injured when a commuter train from New York barreled into a New Jersey rail station during the Thursday morning rush hour, officials said.

Jennifer Nelson, a New Jersey Transit spokeswoman, says some of those injured were in critical condition. Witnesses reported injuries, including one woman who was trapped under concrete and many people bleeding.



New Jersey governor Chris Christie confirmed the fatality at a press conference.

Ambulances and firetrucks from neighboring cities arrived at Hoboken train station around 10.45am to help transport dozens of injured passengers.

Several roads leading to Hoboken were closed by police. Pedestrians in the area meandered around the scene, looking shocked or confused. 



Near the station, first responders continuously pushed media further back down the Observer Highway, away from the station. The scenes remained chaotic at 11am, with a mix of dozens of emergency vehicles, sirens flashing and media attempting to film evidence of destruction outside the station.

TV footage and photos from the scene show damage to the rail car and extensive structural damage to the Hoboken station. Images on social media show a train that appears to have gone through the bumper stop at the end of a track.

“The next thing I know, we are plowing through the platform,” passenger Bhagyesh Shah told NBC New York. “It was for a couple seconds, but it felt like an eternity.”



He said the train was crowded, particularly the first two cars, because they make for an easy exit into the Hoboken station and onto the Path train. Passengers in the second car broke the emergency windows to get out.

“I saw a woman pinned under concrete,” Shah told NBC New York. “A lot of people were bleeding; one guy was crying.”

A New Jersey Transit spokeswoman said it wasn’t clear how many people were injured.

The train came to a halt in a covered area between the station’s indoor waiting area and the platform. A metal structure covering the area collapsed.

“It simply did not stop,” WFAN anchor John Minko, who witnessed the crash, told 1010 WINS. “It went right through the barriers and into the reception area.”

The train had left Spring Valley, New York, at 7.23am and crashed into Hoboken Terminal at 8.45am, said NJ Transit spokeswoman Nancy Snyder.

The Federal Railroad Administration dispatched investigators to the crash scene, said Matthew Lehner, a spokesman for the agency.

Rail service was suspended in and out of Hoboken, which is directly across the Hudson River from New York City.

The station is a hub for commuters switching from the NJ Transit system to the Path system to head into Manhattan.

Hoboken, which is NJ Transit’s fifth-busiest station with 15,000 boardings per weekday, is the final stop for several train lines and a transfer point for many commuters on their way to New York City.

NJ Transit provides more than 200 million passenger trips annually on bus, rail and light rail lines. More than 100,000 people use NJ Transit trains to commute from New Jersey into New York City daily.

The Associated Press contributed to this report</s>A packed commuter train ploughed into a station in New Jersey during the morning rush hour on Thursday, with three people reported killed and more than 100 injured, many of them in critical condition.

IMAGE: NJ Police officers and NJ firefighters arrive to the train terminal after a New Jersey Transit train crashed into the platform at Hoboken Terminal during morning rush hour. Photograph: Pancho Bernasconi/Getty Images

The train failed to stop as it pulled into Hoboken station at speed, went up over the blocks at the end of the track and rammed into a wall a few meters away, a New Jersey transit official told AFP at the scene.

Michael Larson, another transit employee, told CNN he heard a "bomb-like explosion" as the train hit the bumpers with such force that it went airborne -- hitting the station's roof and causing it to partly collapse.

"It was going considerably faster than it should have normally been at the terminal," he said. "It went up and over the bumper block, through the depot... and came to rest at the wall by the waiting room."

Video and photos posted on social media showed major damage to the transit hub just over the Hudson river from Manhattan, with the train tangled in wires and debris from what appeared to be caved in portions of the roof.

Train #1614 was arriving from Spring Valley when it struck the Hoboken terminal building at around 8.45 am (6.15 pm), New Jersey Transit said in a statement, adding that all services were currently suspended in and out of the station.

IMAGE: The roof collapse after a NJ Transit train crashed in to the platform at the Hoboken Terminal. Photograph: Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images

Passengers quoted by US media described the train ramming at full speed into the bumper at the end of the track.

"We never slowed down," Jim Finan, a commuter from New Jersey, told Fox News. "We ploughed, I mean, right through the bumper."

NBC and CBS reported three fatalities from the early morning accident. No official toll was immediately available.

"We have 100 plus injuries," Jennifer Nelson, a New Jersey transit spokeswoman, told reporters at the scene, adding that there were "multiple critical injuries."

Nelson said there were around 250 passengers on board at the time of the crash, and that it was not known if there were still people trapped on the train.

Finan said it was an unusually crowded morning.

IMAGE: A NJ Transit train seen through the wreckage after it crashed in to the platform at the Hoboken Terminal. Photograph: Pancho Bernasconi/Getty Images

"Afterwards there was some panic. People were trying to smash some windows out."

"Everyone who was standing kind of went flying," he said. "I saw a lot of head injuries and kind of people with cuts."

Nelson told reporters it was not known how fast the train was travelling as it entered the station, and that an investigation was ongoing.

"We're looking at all things that could have caused this accident," she said.

Emergency vehicles converged on the scene in response to the crash.</s>HOBOKEN: A speeding commuter train that plowed into a New Jersey station during morning rush hour, killing one person and injuring 114, has caused major destruction at the transport hub and gateway to Manhattan.

The train entered the Hoboken station “at a high rate of speed” and “crashed through the barriers, bringing it into the interior wall” of the terminal, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said.

A 34-year-old resident of Hoboken, who state medical examiners identified as Fabiola Bittar de Kroon, was standing on the platform when she was hit and killed by debris from the crash, Christie told CNN. She was the sole confirmed fatality.

The train’s engineer was treated at a local hospital before being released and was cooperating with an investigation into the crash, he said.

“We have no indication that this is anything but a tragic accident,” Christie said.

“Was it a system failure? Was it human error? Was it a medical emergency involving the engineer? We don’t know.”

Video and photos on social media showed serious damage to the transit choke point just across the Hudson River from Manhattan, with the train tangled in wires and debris from what appeared to be caved-in portions of the roof.

The Hoboken terminal is a major transfer point for New Jersey trains and buses as well as ferries and the PATH commuter train that take passengers to New York.

Kenneth Garay, chief medical officer at Jersey City medical center, said surgeons were “all hands on deck” treating patients with broken bones, internal injuries and lacerations.

“None at this point are life-threatening,” he said on CNN. “They’re critical and stable and being carefully monitored.”

A total of 114 people were injured, Christie told the station. Of those, 55 were treated by emergency responders, while another 22 were transported to hospitals and 37 were walk-ins.

He said he had been contacted by the White House and was working with federal, state and local authorities to “make sure this investigation is seamless and coordinated.”

Structural damage and the possible presence of asbestos had prevented investigators from accessing the train cars, Bella Dinh-Zarr, vice chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board, told reporters.

Investigators would spend seven to 10 days on site, she added, saying they hoped to find the train’s event recorder — which would contain information about speed and braking — later in the day.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said she “was terribly upset this morning.”

“It’s a horrible accident,” the former New York senator said at a campaign rally in Des Moines, Iowa. “I just want to send our thoughts and prayers.”

Donald Trump also expressed his sympathies with the victims on Twitter.

“My condolences to those involved in today’s horrible accident in NJ and my deepest gratitude to all of the amazing first responders,” the Republican candidate said.

Appearing alongside Christie was New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who canceled a trip to Israel for the funeral of former president Shimon Peres.

“These are difficult times over these past weeks and months, between terrorist attacks and natural disasters,” Cuomo said, referring to a recent string of bombings in New York and New Jersey.

Train 1614 was arriving from Spring Valley, New York when it struck the Hoboken terminal building around 8:45 am (1245 GMT), the New Jersey Transit agency said in a statement.

Passengers described a scene of chaos with dazed and bloodied people making their way to safety.

“We crashed and the lights went out. A few people screamed,” Leon Offengenden told CNN.

“It was pretty chaotic,” he added. “And people just in shock and everybody has photos and cameras out and iPads. It was pretty intense.”

Passengers described the train — which was carrying around 250 people — ramming full speed into the bumper at the end of the track.

“We never slowed down,” Jim Finan, a commuter from New Jersey, told Fox News. “We plowed, I mean, right through the bumper.”

Investigators will be looking for similarities to a 2011 PATH commuter train crash at Hoboken that injured several dozen people, Dinh-Zarr said.

Christie said engineers were examining the structural integrity of the Hoboken terminal, which underwent lengthy repairs after being hit during Superstorm Sandy in 2012.

The last major train crash in the United States took place in May 2015, when an Amtrak train linking Washington to New York derailed in Philadelphia, killing eight and injuring 200.

In December 2013, a New York suburban train derailed in the Bronx while traveling at several times the speed limit, leaving four people dead and more than 60 injured. AFP</s>New Jersey train crash leaves over 100 people injured, three dead

HOBOKEN, New Jersey -- A packed commuter train crashed into a station in New Jersey during the morning rush hour Thursday, officials said, killing three with more than 100 reportedly injured.

The train failed to stop as it pulled into the transit hub of Hoboken, just over the Hudson river from New York, according to early photographs of the accident released by AFP.

"Due to a NJ Transit train derailment at #Hoboken Station, NJ, all PATH train service in and out of Hoboken Station is suspended," New York's official emergency information system tweeted.

New Jersey's emergency management system was reporting more than 100 people injured, while the New Jersey transit service said there were "multiple" injuries, ABC News reported.

Images on social media showed serious damage to the train station, with part of the roof apparently caved in.

Video showed the station in shambles with the train tangled in wires and debris from what appeared to be collapsed portions of the roof.

Emergency vehicles converged on the scene in response to the crash.

TV footage and photos from the scene Thursday morning show damage to the rail car and extensive structural damage to the Hoboken station. Images on social media show a train that appears to have gone through the bumper stop at the end of a track.

The train came to a halt in a covered area between the station's indoor waiting area and the platform. A metal structure covering the area collapsed.

"It simply did not stop," WFAN anchor John Minko, who witnessed the crash, told 1010 WINS. "It went right through the barriers and into the reception area."

Rail service was suspended in and out of Hoboken, which is directly across the Hudson River from New York City.

Hoboken, which is New Jersey Transit's fifth-busiest stations with 15,000 boardings per weekday, is the final stop for several train lines and a transfer point for many commuters on their way to New York City.</s>A commuter train from New York barreled into a New Jersey rail station without stopping and crashed during the Thursday morning rush hour, injuring more than 100 people, some of them critically, authorities said.

Witnesses reported seeing one woman trapped under concrete and many people bleeding after the New Jersey Transit train crashed at the Hoboken station.

“We have multiple injuries, multiple critical injuries right now,” said Jennifer Nelson, a spokeswoman for NJ Transit. “The terminal is shut down.”

She said she doesn’t know yet how fast the train was going when it ran into the rail bumper at the end of the line.

TV footage and photos from the scene show damage to the rail car and extensive structural damage to the Hoboken station.

“The next thing I know, we are plowing through the platform,” passenger Bhagyesh Shah told NBC New York. “It was for a couple seconds, but it felt like an eternity.”

Nancy Bido, a passenger on the train, told WNBC-TV in New York that train didn’t slow as it pulled into the station. “It just never stopped. It was going really fast and the terminal was basically the brake for the train,” she said.

He said the train was crowded, particularly the first two cars, because they make for an easy exit into the Hoboken station and onto the PATH train. Passengers in the second car broke the emergency windows to get out.

“I saw a woman pinned under concrete,” Shah told NBC New York. “A lot of people were bleeding; one guy was crying.”

The train came to a halt in a covered area between the station’s indoor waiting area and the platform. A metal structure covering the area collapsed.

“It simply did not stop,” WFAN anchor John Minko, who witnessed the crash, told 1010 WINS. “It went right through the barriers and into the reception area.”

The train had left Spring Valley, New York, at 7:23 a.m. and crashed into Hoboken Terminal at 8:45 a.m., said NJ Transit spokeswoman Nancy Snyder. She said authorities are investigating what might have caused the train to crash.

The National Transportation Safety Board was opening an investigation into the crash and will send a team of investigators to the scene, said Keith Holloway, a spokesman for the board.

The Federal Railroad Administration also dispatched investigators to the crash scene, said spokesman Matthew Lehner.

Rail service was suspended in and out of Hoboken, which is directly across the Hudson River from New York City.

The station is a hub for commuters switching from the NJ Transit system to the PATH system to head into Manhattan.

Hoboken, which is NJ Transit’s fifth-busiest stations with 15,000 boardings per weekday, is the final stop for several train lines and a transfer point for many commuters on their way to New York City.

NJ Transit provides more than 200 million passenger trips annually on bus, rail and light rail lines. More than 100,000 people use NJ Transit trains to commute from New Jersey into New York City daily.

A crash at the same station on a different train line injured more than 30 people in 2011. The PATH commuter train crashed into bumpers at the end of the tracks on a Sunday morning.</s>NEW YORK — A train crashed into the station in Hoboken, New Jersey, on Thursday morning and there were reports of injuries, New York’s NBC affiliate reported on its website.

Officials from the local police, fire department and New Jersey Transit could not immediately be reached for comment.

Many commuters posted pictures on social media that appeared to show the station with part of its roof collapsed.</s>A New Jersey transit train that derailed and crashed through the station is seen in Hoboken, New Jersey, US (Reuters photo)

HOBOKEN, United States — A packed commuter train crashed into a station in New Jersey during the morning rush hour Thursday, with three people reported killed and more than 100 injured, many of them in critical condition.

The train failed to stop as it pulled into Hoboken station, causing major damage to the transit hub just over the Hudson River from Manhattan.

Michael Larson, a New Jersey transit employee, told CNN the train hit a concrete block at the end of the line with such force that it went airborne — hitting the roof and causing it to partly collapse.

“We have 100 plus injuries,” Jennifer Nelson, a New Jersey transit spokeswoman, told reporters at the scene, adding that there were “multiple critical injuries”.

NBC and CBS reported three fatalities from the early morning accident. No official toll was immediately available.

Nelson said there were around 250 passengers on the train at the time of the crash, which occurred at around 9:00am (1300 GMT), and that it was not known if there were still people trapped on board.

Passengers quoted by US media described the train ramming at full speed into the bumper at the end of the track.

“We never slowed down,” Jim Finan, a commuter from New Jersey, told Fox. “We ploughed, I mean, right through the bumper.”

“Afterwards there was some panic. People were trying to smash some windows out.”

Finan said it was an unusually crowded morning.

“Everyone who was standing kind of went flying,” he said. “I saw a lot of head injuries and kind of people with cuts.”

Nelson told reporters it was not known how fast the train was travelling as it entered the station, and that an investigation was ongoing.

“We’re looking at all things that could have caused this accident,” she said.

Emergency vehicles converged on the scene in response to the crash.

Pancho Bernasconi, Getty’s director of photography for news who arrived at the station just after the crash, told AFP he saw people running as he arrived on the scene.

There was “a lot of damage” to the station. “Part of the roof has collapsed.”

Video on social media showed the station in shambles with the train tangled in wires and debris from what appeared to be collapsed portions of the roof.

Other passengers described a scene of chaos with dazed and bloodied people making their way to safety.

“We crashed, and the lights went out. A few people screamed,” Leon Offengenden told CNN.

“It was pretty chaotic. And people just in shock and everybody has photos and cameras out and iPads. It was pretty intense. I took a few snaps and video posted online,” he said.

The last major train crash in the United States was in May 2015, when an Amtrak train linking Washington to New York derailed in Philadelphia, leaving eight dead and 200 injured.</s>HOBOKEN, N.J. — A commuter train barreled into a New Jersey rail station during the Thursday morning rush hour, causing serious damage. Initial reports said more than 100 people were injured and others were trapped in the wreckage.

TV footage and photos from the scene Thursday morning show damage to the rail car and extensive structural damage to the Hoboken station. Images on social media show a train that appears to have gone through the bumper stop at the end of a track.

The train came to a halt in a covered area between the station’s indoor waiting area and the platform. A metal structure covering the area collapsed.

“It simply did not stop,” said WFAN radio station anchor John Minko, who witnessed the crash. “It went right through the barriers and into the reception area.”

Rail service was suspended in and out of Hoboken, which is directly across the Hudson River from New York City.

The station is a hub for commuters switching heading into Manhattan.

Hoboken, which is New Jersey Transit’s fifth-busiest stations with 15,000 boardings per weekday, is the final stop for several train lines and a transfer point for many commuters on their way to New York City.
A commuter train accident at the Hoboken Terminal in New Jersey leaves one woman dead and 114 others injured. Major structural damage occurs to the station with portions of the roof collapsed.