Passengers Describe Harrowing Scene at NJ Transit Crash

Pancho Bernasconi/Getty Images(HOBOKEN, N.J.) — Witnesses described the harrowing scene Thursday morning after a New Jersey Transit commuter train crashed into a platform at Hoboken Terminal in northern New Jersey, killing at least one person and seriously injuring others.

Officials said at least 100 people were wounded in the crash.

Corey Futterman was riding in one of the last cars of the train but was not injured in the crash. He told ABC News that this was “something I’ve never seen before.”

“We had just left Secaucus and that’s where about half or if not more than half of the train gets off the car to transfer to New York [Penn Station]. We were approaching Hoboken and the train did not seem to be slowing down whatsoever and then all of a sudden everything just crashed and shook,” Futterman said.

There was no indication that something was wrong before the crash, according to Futterman.

“We were just going a little quicker than expected,” he said. “We were not slowing too much.”

Futterman said his train car was not severely damaged in the crash.

“But when you got out, I immediately saw like the roof caved in and the car was on top of the platform and it was wires everywhere and total destruction inside. And chaos,” he told ABC News. “People were freaking out and crying. People’s faces were bloody.”

Another witness, who was identified only as Jamie, described the moment of the crash to ABC News station WABC-TV in New York.

“We’re panicking, because I believe those people in the front were very badly injured. So they started yelling, because they saw the blood,” she said, adding, “[the train] was super packed.”

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