One person has died and at least 20 others are injured following a train crash caused by a downed tree in Mansfield, New Jersey.
There were a total of 45 passengers on board the River Line train early this morning – which crashed just after 6am when part of a tree fell across the tracks.
All trains between Roebling and Bordentown have been suspended as a result.
Emergency personnel were seen working to get the fallen tree out of the train’s path.
It is currently unclear if the injured have been taken to hospital.
There were 45 passengers on board the River Line train this morning. Pictured: The fallen tree on the track near Mansfield Township, causing the crash just before 6am on Monday
The front of the train (pictured) was damaged during the ordeal. It is currently unclear if the injured have been taken to hospital
New Jersey’s River Line said in a statement on X: ‘River Line service is suspended in both directions between Trenton and Florence stations due to downed trees across the tracks near Roebling.
‘Substitute bus service is being provided.’
The crash took place near US 130, and aerial footage showed a chunk of tree bark lodged underneath the front right side of the commuter train.
Families of those injured have been told to reunite at the River Front Motel.
Officials said an investigation is ongoing.
This comes just two months after two cargo trains collided in a shocking head-on crash in Boulder, Colorado.
The trains crumpled across the tracks – and the two conductors steering the trains were hospitalized with minor injuries.
And in November last year, 38 people were injured when a passenger train collided with a snow plow on a busy commuter line near the center of Chicago.
Fifteen ambulances were dispatched to the scene of the crash between two trains on the same line 300 yards outside Howard Station in the Rogers Park neighborhood in November 2023.
All trains between Roebling and Bordentown have been suspended as a result
The Chicago Fire Department officials said all 38 people on board the two-carriage train were checked by medics and a two-year-old was among four children injured.
Twenty three people were taken to hospital with another 15 treated at the scene.
‘I just heard like a horrible boom sound,’ said Shayla Smith who heard the crash as she boarded a Purple Line train at Howard last year.
The CTA train was ‘traveling at its normal speed’ when it hit the snow plow which was ‘not traveling very fast at all,’ CFD District Chief Robert Jurewicz said.
Both were traveling in the same direction, but the train was moving at about 30 mph while the plow was at a ‘slow crawl’ of about 10 mph, his colleague Larry Langford said.
‘The train was much faster and it rear-ended the plow.’