Photos: LIRR train collisions
On Tuesday, an eastbound LIRR train that just pulled away from Westbury struck a vehicle at the School Street crossing, police said. The vehicle was then struck again by a faster-moving westbound train. Three people inside the vehicle were killed, and seven people suffered minor injuries onboard the westbound train, which was carrying about 200 people. Also, take a look at photos of other LIRR train collisions.
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The westbound train that crashed into the Westbury platform on Tuesday night was still there Wednesday. The train derailed after it crashed into a vehicle at the School Street grade crossing.
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The westbound train that crashed into the Westbury platform on Tuesday night seen on Wednesday.
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The interior of one of the train cars involved in the fatal crash Tuesday at the School Street crossing in Westbury.
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Firefighters at the scene in Westbury after a vehicle was hit by two trains on Tuesday.
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Firefighters at the scene in Westbury after a vehicle was hit by two trains on Tuesday.
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Emergency crews work on a LIRR derailment at the Westbury station on Tuesday.
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A tractor trailer truck with precast cement products was struck by the LIRR train when it stalled on the tracks at Orchard Street in Bellport on May 11, 1992.
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A Long Island Rail Road train smashed into a tractor-trailer stuck at a grade crossing in Huntington on Aug. 25, 1988, derailing the train and injuring 18 people aboard, none seriously.
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A Valley Stream woman was killed on Oct. 21, 1993, when a traffic jam pinned her on a Long Island Rail Road crossing, and a fast-moving train slammed her car into a utility pole as she desperately tried to move out of the way, Nassau police said.
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The first car left the tracks and sailed into the Kleet Lumber yard on Park Avenue after a Long Island Rail Road train smashed into a tractor-trailer stuck at a grade crossing in Huntington on Aug. 25, 1988.
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A Valley Stream woman was killed on Oct. 21, 1993, when a traffic jam pinned her on a Long Island Rail Road crossing, and a fast-moving train slammed her car into a utility pole as she desperately tried to move out of the way, Nassau police said.
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A Long Island Rail Road train on May 11, 1992, rammed a truck stuck on the tracks in at the Bellport Station in East Patchogue with a load of 21 tons of concrete drainage vaults, injuring 16 people and delaying 1,800 commuters.
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A truck crossing the gate at the LIRR crossing at Roslyn Road was struck by the LIRR train on July 22, 1984.
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An LIRR train struck a stalled car at West Broadway and Mill Road crossing in Hewlett on Dec. 1, 1985.
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An unoccupied car driven by a woman from Copiague and her daughter escaped injury in the 11:45 a.m. accident after the vehicle was struck and dragged by a westbound LIRR train at the grade crossing at Clinton Avenue railroad crossing in Bayshore on April 28, 1986.
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Police investigate the wreckage of a car that was involved in a fatal LIRR crossing accident just west of the Farmingdale Station on Aug. 12, 1992.
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