Train Crash Under Investigation, Engineer Critical

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says the engineer involved in today's train crash in Hoboken is in critical condition. He says the engineer is cooperating with investigators.
 
The New Jersey Transit train crashed during rush hour this morning. Witnesses reported that it came speeding into the station and hit a concrete-and-steel bumper. It apparently knocked out pillars as it ground to a halt in a covered waiting area, collapsing a section of the roof onto the first car.
 
Christie says one woman was killed in the crash and 108 people were injured.
 
Authorities say the cause of the crash wasn't immediately clear.
 
 A New Jersey Transit machinist who was at the station says he saw the train coming in at a high rate of speed and strike the bumper block, which caused the front car to go into the air.
 
Michael Larson says the train traveled about 40 feet after going airborne and hit the wall of a waiting room.
 
The National Transportation Safety Board is opening an investigation into this morning's crash, and is sending a team of investigators to the scene.
 
A former investigator for the agency says they will be trying to find out what the operator was doing before the crash, and whether the person was distracted. 


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A commuter train has crashed into a rail station in New Jersey, causing at least one death, dozens of injuries and serious damage.
 
New Jersey transportation authorities are reporting that over one hundred people were injured in the crash, and that multiple passengers are trapped in the wreckage.
 
TV footage and photos from the scene Thursday morning show damage to the rail car and extensive structural damage to the station.

Radio station WFAN anchor John Minko told New York radio station WINS that the train ``went right through the barriers and into the reception area.'' 

The train was reported to have been carrying about 250 passengers on their morning commute.
 
Rail service was suspended in and out of Hoboken, which is 7 miles outside New York City.