🐱 Train at full speed runs through hoboken train station

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/09/2...en-nj-station-multiple-injuries-reported.html
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loca...t-in-Hoboken-Injuries-Reported-395249051.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...sey-transit-hoboken-station-article-1.2811435

 

[wagglyplacebo]

New Jersey deserves it.

 

[Beaniebon]

Holy shit. America just hasn't gotten a break.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

Allahu Amtrak

 

[Lurker]

My only question is why in the everloving fuck is the platform right behind the end of the track? That just sounds like a really bad idea.

 

[Bork Laser]

This is why I don't trust the PATH trains or Amtrak. This is the second time this has happened in two years. In 2014 a philly train heading to NY flipped off the rails.

 

[SP 199]

Guess the only thing that can stop the rape train is a station full of people

 

[CatParty]

My only question is why in the everloving fuck is the platform right behind the end of the track? That just sounds like a really bad idea.

it's a transfer hub

 

[Without A Gout]

This is why I don't trust the PATH trains or Amtrak. This is the second time this has happened in two years. In 2014 a philly train heading to NY flipped off the rails.

IIRC, that accident was due to gross incompetence by the conductor. I'm betting that the case here is either this or technical malfunction.

 

[Bork Laser]

IIRC, that accident was due to gross incompetence by the conductor. I'm betting that the case here is either this or technical malfunction.

On wikipedia it says loss a situational awareness because of too many radio transmissions coming in from another train. I don't think he was ever charged. Here i'm thinking either issue with the train, the guy controlling it got distracted, or had a medical emergency

 

[Bassomatic]

Mystery solved from face book"some of you are alright dont go to Hoboken tomorrow"

 

[Hawker Hurricane]

"New Jersey Transit hasn't completed installing positive train control, a safety system designed to prevent accidents by automatically slowing or stopping trains that are going too fast. None of its trains or tracks is fully equipped with the system yet. The industry is under government orders to install PTC, but the work has gone more slowly than expected, and the deadline has been repeatedly extended by regulators at the request of the railroads. The deadline is now the end of 2018."

Spoiler: TL;DR

Joking aside, though, this sucks, and it sucks especially hard when safety implementations that might have stopped things like this get stuck in implementation hell until the very thing they're being put in place to prevent happens.

 

[AnOminous]

Allahu Amtrak

It's an NJT.

Used to ride one of those every day.

 

[Hummingbird]

I'm just hoping BLM doesn't hijack this and make it about themselves like the did with the Paris attacks and the Orlando shooting.

 

[Lurker]

This is why I don't trust the PATH trains or Amtrak. This is the second time this has happened in two years. In 2014 a philly train heading to NY flipped off the rails.

Hey, at least it wasn't SEPTA. Which is shocking. Because SEPTA is fucking atrocious.

(Also, I think the derailment you're referring to happened in 2015, and it was an Amtrak train from Washington DC to New York that derailed in Philadelphia. :autism

 

[Jaimas]

We have shocking footage of the event courtesy of Kiwi operatives:

 

[Bork Laser]

We have shocking footage of the event courtesy of Kiwi operatives:

Well Hobken has alot of speds in it so this isn't inaccurate

 

[Florence]

 

[AnOminous]

This is why I don't trust the PATH trains or Amtrak. This is the second time this has happened in two years. In 2014 a philly train heading to NY flipped off the rails.

This was neither. It was NJT.