14 killed in Bronx debate train crash

New York (CNN) — At slightest 14 people were killed when a debate train overturned in a Bronx early Saturday, officials said.

The motorist of a train pronounced he was cut off by a lorry motorist — who continued pushing — causing a train to snake into a guardrail, flip on a side and pound into a stick that sliced by some-more than dual thirds of a vehicle, according to New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

In further to a dead, 8 people among a 32 passengers on house had suffered critical injuries, Kelly said. The victims were rushed to a St. Barnabas and Jacobi hospitals.

“We have no teenager injuries during this time, everybody is deliberate serious,” pronounced Kelly, adding that a pile-up expected occurred during high speeds.

At slightest 7 passengers had to be extracted by stealing seats and slicing a hole in a remaining roof.

Most of a passengers were bearing to a brazen third of a train as it separate open,suffering injuries especially from a chest up, Fire Chief Edward Kilduff said.

At slightest 5 people being treated during New York’s St. Barnabas Hospital suffered skull and spinal fractures, inner draining and damaged bones, Dr. Ernest Patti told reporters.

The train motorist remained unwavering after a pile-up and was means to pronounce with authorities who surveyed a scene.

Investigators contend they have information on a permit image of a car that might have been concerned in a accident.

“Our — and a whole city’s — prayers, thoughts and sympathies are with a victims, and their families and desired ones,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg pronounced in a created matter Saturday. “Many of a victims are Chinese, and we have brought in translators to assistance support a families.”

The National Transportation Safety Board pronounced it has deployed a 16-member group to examine a crash, that occurred only after 5:35 a.m. as a train was roving south on a New England Thruway nearby a limit of Westchester and a Bronx — one of New York City’s 5 boroughs.

It had over from a Mohegan Sun Resort and Casino in Uncasville, Connecticut.

When puncture teams arrived during a stage “we found several people walking around dazed,” Kilduff said.

CNN’s Susan Candiotti and Monika Plocienniczak contributed to this report.