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#61 KevinKorell

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Posted 23 December 2016 - 01:34 AM

lohud.com  12/22/16:


 

Modern bumper might have mitigated Hoboken train crash

 

When a NJ Transit commuter train plowed off the end of a track in September, killing a woman standing in the Hoboken station and injuring more than 100 others, the last thing in its way was a concrete-and-steel bumper that was in place when the station opened in 1907.

 

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Posted 22 February 2017 - 03:22 PM

Related topic:  NTSB: Probes of LIRR, NJ Transit crashes may be combined



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Posted 24 February 2017 - 06:45 PM

Newark, NJ Star-Ledger,  2/23/17:
 

 

Commuter tells lawmakers he's 'lucky to be alive' after Hoboken train crash



Sheldon Kest heard two bumps and then was plunged into darkness when his NJ Transit train crashed into the Hoboken Terminal five months ago. He knew that he couldn't get to a door halfway down the length of the car to escape because of his recent knee surgery.

 

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Posted 28 June 2017 - 10:18 PM

Asbury Park Press, Neptune, NJ, 6/28/17:

 


NJ Transit sued by family of woman killed in Hoboken derailment

 

The family of a woman killed when an NJ Transit commuter train derailed and barreled into a busy rail terminal has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the agency.

 

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Posted 22 September 2017 - 07:52 AM

NTSB news release:

Dockets Opened for 2 Bumping Post Collision Investigations, Board Meeting Scheduled

 
9/21/2017

 

Dockets for the fatal, Sept. 29, 2016, NJ Transit commuter rail collision in Hoboken, New Jersey, and the Jan. 4, 2017, Long Island Rail Road collision at the Atlantic Terminal, Brooklyn, New York, were opened to the public Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board as part of its ongoing investigations of the two accidents.

 

The agency is also preparing a Special Investigation Report focused on the findings from both the NJ Transit and Long Island Rail Road accidents.  The Special Investigation Report will include recommendations based on those findings.

 

The commonalities in the accidents – both involving bumping post collisions at the end of a track in a terminal – warrant a singular discussion of the related safety issues. Combining each accident report with a Special Investigation Report allows each to be addressed in a single board meeting. The NTSB has scheduled that board meeting for Feb. 6, 2018, in the NTSB Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L’Enfant Plaza, SW, Washington, beginning 9:30 a.m. (EST).

 

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HOBOKEN, New Jersey (Oct. 1, 2016) — NJ Transit Pascack Valley Line train #1614 collided at the New Jersey Transit Hoboken Terminal Sept. 29, 2016.  A bumping post of an adjacent track is in the foreground.  (NTSB Photo by Chris O’Neil)

 

 

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BROOKLYN, New York (Jan. 4, 2017) — NTSB rail safety investigator Jim Southworth (right) and Sandy Rowlett, Deputy Director of the Office of Rail, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Investigations (left) conduct an initial survey of the damage to the Long Island Rail Road train involved in the bumping post collision in the Atlantic Terminal,  Brooklyn, New York. (NTSB Photo by Peter Knudson)

 
 

The public docket for these investigations contains only factual information collected by NTSB investigators, affording those with a need and desire for its contents the opportunity to review the information gathered about the accidents. The public docket does not provide analysis, findings, recommendations or probable cause determinations, and as such, no conclusions about how or why an accident occurred should be drawn from the information in the docket. The probable causes, findings and recommendations are discussed and voted upon at the board meeting and published in a final report.

 

A special investigation report is similar to an accident report in that it reports and analyzes facts, draws conclusions, and makes recommendations.  It differs from accident reports in that it usually involves more than one accident investigation and includes briefs of the accidents with the probable cause determination. 

 

The dockets for the NJ Transit commuter rail collision and the Long Island Rail Road collision are available online at https://go.usa.gov/xRuhv and https://go.usa.gov/xRuh6.

 

The board meeting is open to the public and will be webcast for those who cannot attend in person.  A link to the webcast will be available shortly before the start of the meeting at http://ntsb.capitolconnection.org/.​​​

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Posted 29 September 2017 - 11:12 AM

Jersey Journal, Jersey City, NJ, 9/29/17:

 


 

NJ Transit still in commuter crosshairs a year after fatal Hoboken train crash

 

Track 5 in Hoboken Terminal, where an overcrowded NJ Transit train barreled into a station platform one year ago Friday, killed a woman waiting in the concourse, barely shows evidence of that harrowing morning.

 

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Posted 18 October 2018 - 08:34 PM

northjersey.com     10/18/18:

 


NJ Transit faces mounting lawsuits over 2016 Hoboken train crash

 

 

 

NJ Transit’s legal troubles from the 2016 Hoboken Terminal train crash are mounting.

 

Since early September, the Hudson County judge overseeing 35 lawsuits related to the crash has added 10 more to the consolidated case, Bhalla vs NJ Transit.

 

 

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Posted 12 September 2019 - 07:54 PM

Coming up on the third anniversary of this incident, here's some interesting news. From Fox News, 9/12/19:

 


 

New Jersey train engineer in 2016 Hoboken deadly crash wins job back

 

The New Jersey Transit engineer who was operating a commuter train that crashed in Hoboken Terminal in 2016, killing one woman on the platform and injuring 108 others, will get his job back on “a one-time, last chance basis” after winning an appeal, a report said Thursday.

 

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Posted 16 May 2021 - 10:30 AM

nj.com   5/13/21:

 


 

    NJ Transit settles lawsuits from fatal 2016 Hoboken train crash  

 

 

The estate of a young mother who was killed by falling debris and three other passengers who were injured after an NJ Transit train slammed through a barrier in Hoboken Terminal on Sept. 29, 2016, had their respective multi-million dollar lawsuits settled by the agency on Wednesday.

 

 

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Posted 14 June 2021 - 05:27 PM

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    NJ Transit pays over $8M to settle suits from fatal Hoboken train crash  

 

 

NJ Transit paid a total of $8.15 million to four injured people and the family of a woman killed when a Pascack Valley Line train crashed through a barrier in Hoboken Terminal on Sept. 29, 2016.

 

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