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NEW YORK — More than 20 people were injured Thursday after a subway train derailed in Manhattan, city officials said.
Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said a subway train with 300 people crashed into a work train on West 96th Street in Manhattan around 3 p.m. Thursday, according to the New York Times. The crash caused the work train to derail.
Twenty-four people were injured, officials said. An internal police report obtained by the Times said at least eight people were taken to the hospital but their conditions are not believed to be serious.
The work train was switching tracks at the time of the crash, the report said, according to the newspaper. Four transit workers were on the work train at the time.
The crash caused major disruptions during the afternoon rush hour, The Associated Press reported. Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials said that the 1, 2 and 3 metro lines were affected the most by the crash and had no service for most of the afternoon.
According to the AP, officials have not yet confirmed the cause of the crash.
Richard Davey, the president of New York City Transit, the MTA division that operates the subway, said at a news conference that the work train had been vandalized with many of its emergency brake cords pulled. Davey said that most of the cords had been reset but one had not.
“Thankfully, there were no serious injuries,” Davey said, according to the Times. “Obviously, two trains should not be bumping into one another. We’re going to get to the bottom of that.”
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