Train Crash into New Jersey Station, Injuring Hundreds  

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta -  A commuter train from New York barrelled into a New Jersey rail station without stopping and crashed during the Thursday morning rush hour, injuring more than 100 people, some of them critically, authorities said.

Witnesses reported seeing one woman trapped under concrete and many people bleeding after the New Jersey Transit train crashed at the Hoboken station.

"We have multiple injuries, multiple critical injuries right now," said Jennifer Nelson, a spokeswoman for NJ Transit. "The terminal is shut down."

Nelson said that she has no information on how fast the train was going when it ran into the rail bumper at the end of the line.

TV footage and photos from the scene show damage to the rail car and extensive structural damage to the Hoboken station.

"The next thing I know, we are plowing through the platform," passenger Bhagyesh Shah as quoted by NBC New York. "It was for a couple seconds, but it felt like an eternity."

Another passenger, Nancy Bido, said to WNBC-TV in New York that the train did not slowing down as it pulled into the station. "It just never stopped. It was going really fast and the terminal was basically the brake for the train," Bido said.

AP