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Hoboken train crash
Unlikely.
FF lives north of Hoboken and usually takes the bus when she isn't working from home.
It looks very much like the brakes failed, so that the train hit the buffers/bumpers at more or less full speed. Hoboken is a terminus on the Hudson, people take the underground PATH train or a ferry to Manhattan.
This is bad, but it would have been much worse an hour or so earlier in the day.
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ursus arctos wrote: It looks very much like the brakes failed, so that the train hit the buffers/bumpers at more or less full speed.
Most end on crashes are due to driver error.
But I guess we shall know in time.
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Thanks, BB&F
I was just looking at US-based railway board where a number of people made similar points. As is often the case, witnesses have given a wide range of estimates of the speed the train was travelling at (anywhere from 10 to 35 mph). The limit entering the terminal yard is 15 mph.
All indications are that this could have been much worse. For one thing, the train was running with the diesel locomotive at the rear, what hit the buffers was the cab car. There does seem to be some structural damage to the roof of the train shed.
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Big Boobs and FIRE! wrote:Originally posted by ursus arctosIt looks very much like the brakes failed, so that the train hit the buffers/bumpers at more or less full speed.
Most end on crashes are due to driver error.
But I guess we shall know in time.
Monkeys, typewriters and Shakespeare, innit? (Although that example actually doesn't work. Monkeys just keep hitting the same key over and over)
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It made me think of the Once rail crash here in 2012, which happened right in peak time and killed 51 people, so I'm glad (if that's the right word to use in such circumstances) that this one is less serious.
Being Argentina, I think the cause of the Once crash - driver error or brake failure - is still under investigation.
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ursus arctos wrote: At least one dead, about 100 injured
And some of the most insidious wingnuts on Twitter are already insisting that this is "radical Islamic terrorism' which is being covered up by the "Sharia-compliant media".
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