2024 New York City Subway derailment | |
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Details | |
Date | January 4, 2024 c. 3:00 p.m. EST |
Location | Near 96th Street station, Upper West Side, Manhattan, New York City |
Coordinates | 40°47′42″N 73°58′17″W / 40.79500°N 73.97139°W |
Country | United States |
Line | IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line |
Operator | New York City Subway |
Incident type | Derailment |
Cause | Under investigation |
Statistics | |
Trains | 2 |
Passengers | Approximately 300 |
Deaths | 0 |
Injured | 25 |
On January 4, 2024, a New York City Subway train derailed causing at least 26 people, mostly passengers, to suffer minor injuries. The incident happened when the first car of a 1 train collided with a disabled train that had been vandalized, both consisting of R62As, just north of the 96th Street station.[1] Around 300 people were evacuated off the train involved in the collision.[2]
The National Transportation Safety Board, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and other authorities are investigating the incident.[3][2] They said that the disabled train, which was heading uptown, had been taken out of service because a passenger repeatedly pulled the emergency brake, resulting in the train being stalled near West 79th Street. That train was taken out of service,[4][5] and the moving train, which was trying to bypass the stalled train using the express track, hit it while switching to the local track.