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42 injured in US train crash
By AKANNI HAMDALAT OPEYEMI with Agency Report
A train crash in eastern US city of Philadelphia injured 42 people early Tuesday, the State Transport authority said.
Heather Redfern, a spokeswoman for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, said a high-speed train ran into another one that was stationary and unoccupied at the 69th Street Terminal in the city’s Upper Darby suburb.
“All 42 people on board the train that was moving were injured and all appear to be non-life-threatening,” she said, adding the cause of the crash just after midnight was being investigated.
National Daily gathered that a passenger named Ronnie narrated: “My face hit the wall, put a big hole in the wall and I went straight down and I blacked out.
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“There was blood everywhere. The driver is all banged up and there was this one girl bleeding out of her face pretty bad.”
36 people were left with minor injuries when two New York subway train cars careened off the tracks in June.
The US rail network suffers from chronic underfunding and accidents are not infrequent, particularly on the busy East Coast corridor.
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