Officials say Gallagher told them everything was going smoothly before the crash. The train barreled into the platform, killing 34-year-old Fabiola Bittar de Kroon and injuring more than 100 others. Gallagher told investigators he doesn't remember the crash, but claims he was fully-rested and completed pre-departure checks earlier in the morning. Although originally listed as being in critical condition in the early afternoon, he has been released from the hospital, Christie said Thursday evening.As commuters head into the Monday morning rush, we're learning more about the moments leading up to last week's New Jersey Transit train crash at the Hoboken Terminal.įederal investigators say the train's engineer Thomas Gallagher told them he approached the station at 10 miles per hour last Thursday morning. The train engineer is Thomas Gallagher, 48. She was originally from Santos, Brazil, according to her Facebook profile. The deceased victim has been identified as Fabiola Bittar de Kroon, 34, of Hoboken, ABC News reported. “The engineer who was operating the train was also critically injured is at a local hospital and cooperating with law enforcement official in the investigation.”
We have 108 injured, and all of those have been evacuated to local hospitals and receiving the care they need,” said Governor Chris Christie who told reports he had just taken a tour of the crash site with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, at a Thursday afternoon briefing in Hoboken. We prayed for the family of the one fatality, that we have confirmed, for her and her family. The governor of New Jersey held an afternoon briefing on the crash. “We always look at the past history and every other factor,” said Dinh-Zarr. That crash injured more than 30 people when a PATH commuter train smashed into the bumpers at the end of the tracks on Mother’s Day.
She said they would be looking at the similarities between today’s crash and the one that occurred at Hoboken in 2011. That is one of the things we will look at carefully.” We expect to arrive in Hoboken later today,” Bella Dinh-Zarr, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), speaking from Virginia, told reporters.Ī reporter asked if the NTSB will be looking at ‘positive train control’ (PTC), an advanced design system to automatically prevent accidents from happening.ĭinh-Zarr said: “PTC has been one of our priorities, and we know that it has proven to prevent accidents. “We are just launching our go-team for the investigation. The one person confirmed dead was on the platform when the train crashed. NJ Transit passenger reacts to crash: "As it was coming into the station, it felt like the car went off the track." #Hoboken /pERDyqoPBJ- Fox News September 29, 2016
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