One person was killed and at least six others were injured after a train accident caused by a fallen tree in Mansfield, New Jersey.
There were a total of 45 passengers aboard the River Line train early this morning, which crashed shortly before 6am when part of a tree fell onto the tracks.
As a result, all trains between Roebling and Bordentown have been suspended.
Emergency personnel were seen working to remove the fallen tree from the path of the train.
It is currently unclear whether the injured have been taken to hospital.
This morning there were 45 passengers aboard the River Line train. Pictured: The fallen tree on the runway near Mansfield Township, causing the crash just before 6 a.m. Monday.
The front of the train (pictured) was damaged during the ordeal. It is currently unclear whether the injured have been taken to hospital.
New Jersey’s River Line said in a statement on X: ‘Update: River Line service is suspended in both directions between the Trenton and Florence stations due to fallen trees on the tracks near Roebling.
“A substitute bus service is being provided.”
The accident took place near US 130 and aerial images showed a piece of tree bark lodged under the right front side of the commuter train.
Families of the injured have been told to gather at the River Front Motel.
Authorities said an investigation is underway.
This comes just two months after two freight trains collided in a shocking head-on crash in Boulder, Colorado.
The trains fell on the tracks and the two drivers who were driving them had to be hospitalized with minor injuries.
And in November of last year, 38 people were injured when a passenger train collided with a snowplow on a busy commuter line near downtown Chicago.
Fifteen ambulances were dispatched to the scene of a crash between two trains on the same line 300 yards from the Howard Station in the Rogers Park neighborhood in November 2023.
As a result, all trains between Roebling and Bordentown have been suspended.
Chicago Fire Department officials said all 38 people aboard the two-car train were checked out by medics and that a two-year-old boy was among the four injured children.
Twenty-three people were taken to hospital and another 15 were treated at the scene.
“I heard a horrible sound,” said Shayla Smith, who heard the crash while boarding a Purple Line train in Howard last year.
The CTA train was “traveling at its normal speed” when it collided with the snow plow that was “not going very fast,” said CFD District Chief Robert Jurewicz.
Both were traveling in the same direction, but the train was moving about 30 mph while the plow was going at a “slow crawl” of about 10 mph, colleague Larry Langford said.
“The train was much faster and hit the plow from behind.”
