The Wireless

Derailment

08:02 am on 2 December 2013

A passenger train crashed in the Bronx area of New York City on Sunday morning and at least four people are reported to have been killed.

Sixty three were reported to have been injured when several carriages came off the tracks at a bend in the railway line.

The train was the 5.54am from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Station. It was about half full when it crashed, with about 150 passengers.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said none of the carriages had gone into the adjacent Hudson or Harlem rivers.

The New York Times reports the crash would have been a major disaster on a full work day.