Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Civilians hit by LIRR

Two people were struck and killed by trains on Monday in apparent suicides. One man jumped in front of an oncoming train at the Wyandanch train station. The train was traveling at about eighty miles per hour. After the accident passengers were transported by bus. The train line was delayed for two hours.

Monday night, another man was hit by another train. This man was killed west of the Floral Park station. Trains for Huntington/Port Jefferson, Oyster Bay, and Hempstead branches were delayed. The trains were delayed up to forty-five minutes. The Ronkonkoma branch was restored at 10:30 a.m. this morning.

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