At least seven people, including a woman, were killed and 12 others injured when a crowded commuter train rammed into a SUV stalled on the tracks and caught fire in a New York suburb, one of the worst railway accidents in the US in recent years. A Metro-North train that had departed from the busy Grand Central Station in Manhattan at 5:45 in the evening on Tuesday smashed into the sport utility vehicle (SUV) on the tracks in Valhalla, a suburb of New York City.
The SUV was pushed about 400 feet along the track after the train plowed into it, officials said, as orange flames and black smoke erupted from the burning train at the height of rush hour. Hundreds rushed for the train exits as they evacuated near Valhalla. It was the deadliest crash in the history of Metro-North, the second busiest US commuter railroad.