![]() ![]() "One woman I'm looking at now, her face is covered in what looks like ash, someone else is bleeding from the back of their head with blood on their button-down collared shirt," she said. Richards spoke to NBC 4 New York from Hahnemann Hospital, where she said those who were able to walk off the train were waiting to speak to officials, and were "shocked and stunned." "It was absolutely surreal," added Richards. "I just remember looking up and seeing two large electric poles and they were leaning in, and I just kept thinking, 'Are these poles going to crash down on the train?'" she said. They warned each other to "watch out for the wires, watch out for the wires" as they exited the train. Richards said the passengers in her car were able to get out through a back exit, which someone had pried open wide enough for people to climb through and emerge onto the ground.Īs they got out of the train car, the passengers quickly retreated from the train tracks because they were afraid the overhead electrical poles would collapse inward, Richards said. And after a second, myself and other people just started asking, 'How do we get off the train? How do we get off the train?'" "And the train started to fill with smoke and I looked to my left and there was a woman in the aisle with blood coming down her face. "I was in complete shock," she told NBC 4 New York's Chuck Scarborough and Sibila Vargas in a phone interview during News 4 at 11 p.m. NBC Nightly News producer Janelle Richards was on board the train in the last car, and heard a loud crash, and then people flew up in their seats. "They told us we had to run away from the train in case another train came," she said. The next few minutes were filled with broken glass and smoke, said Rudy, who suffered minor injuries. She said she was nearly asleep when she suddenly felt the train "fall off the track." ![]() Gaby Rudy, an 18-year-old from Livingston, New Jersey, was headed home from George Washington University at the time of the derailment. "I'm scratched and may have a concussion," Helfman told NBC News. Damar Hamlin ‘Fully Cleared' to Return to Football After Cardiac Arrest ![]()
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