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NYC subway train derailment injures dozens in Harlem

By Andrew V. Pestano and Doug G. Ware
A section of an A train in New York City's Harlem neighborhood derailed and crashed into a wall on Tuesday, injuring dozens of riders. Photo courtesy nrik_nyc/Twitter
A section of an A train in New York City's Harlem neighborhood derailed and crashed into a wall on Tuesday, injuring dozens of riders. Photo courtesy nrik_nyc/Twitter

June 27 (UPI) -- Dozens of riders were injured in Harlem Tuesday when a subway train derailed and careened into a wall, authorities said.

The Fire Department of New York and Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said an A train derailed and hit a wall near 125th Street along St. Nicholas Avenue just before 10 a.m. Tuesday. The crash forced hundreds to crawl out of the derailed subway car on the tracks.

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The accident spurred numerous transit delays and cancellations, as well, on the A, B, C, D, E, F and M lines.

The train derailed at a low rate of speed, NBC 4 New York reported. Nearly three dozen people were injured, the New York Daily News reported.

"We were on the express track from 145th to 125th... All of a sudden it was like the train just started like banging against the walls of the tunnel," one passenger told CBS 2 New York. "It was going up and down. It was sort of like a runaway roller coaster -- like a bucking horse."

"The train was peeled open like a can opener," Paul Navarro, track division chairman for the Transport Workers Union, said.

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MTA officials said the train's emergency brake was activated before the crash, but the cause is still under investigation.

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