Long Island train derailment: 33 injured, services suspended
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(CNN) - The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the derailment of a Long Island commuter train Saturday night that left 33 people injured, authorities said.
The first three carriages of the 12-car Long Island Rail Road train came off the tracks about half a mile east of New Hyde Park station, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement.
New Hyde Park is about 20 miles east of Manhattan.
The eastbound train derailed after colliding with part of a work train running in the same direction on an adjacent track, Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Tom Prendergast told reporters.
A piece of equipment from the work train ended up "violating the clearance envelope of the other track," he said.
The work train reportedly caught fire after the collision.
"Why was the work train violating the space? That's what we are going to have to find out," Cuomo told reporters.
Among the injured were 26 passengers and seven employees, two of whom were on the work train. Four people were seriously injured, although none have life-threatening injuries, Prendergast said.
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WTF is going on with our trains
let me start taking buses!