Posted on 02/13/2015 6:07:40 PM PST by dynachrome
According to the initial investigations of the NTSB, which include witnesses at the scene, the driver exited the vehicle on the tracks to inspect it being hit by a crossing gate:
Reports so far show that 49-year-old Ellen Brody crossed onto the tracks, when the crossing gate slammed down on the back of her vehicle. Instead of pulling through the intersection though, she got out to inspect the back of her car. It was when she got back in her car and started to pull forward that she was struck by the passing train – going 58mph.
The crash led to the train being engulfed in flames after the electrified third rail basically incinerated the passenger cars. Loaded with hundreds of passengers, a reported 70 were injured and only five died, with the conductor and train operator among the survivors of the freak accident:
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Joseph Nadol, 42. Managing director at JPMorgan, who joined the Manhattan-based bank in 2001. Institutional Investor magazine in 2009 named him the best analyst covering the aerospace and defense-electronics industries. Died Feb. 3 in the Metro-North Railroad train accident.
Eric Vandercar, 53. Senior managing director in institutional sales and trading and head of municipal funding at Mesirow Financial, in New York. He had previously spent 27 years at Morgan Stanley. Died Feb. 3 in the Metro-North Railroad train accident.
Aditya Tomar, 41. JPMorgan vice president of technology supporting the bank’s asset-management division. Before joining JPMorgan, he worked at Morgan Stanley, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. and Barclays Capital. Died Feb. 3 in the Metro-North Railroad train accident.
Robert Dirks, 36. Scientist at D.E. Shaw Research, which creates computer models of organic molecules for use in drug development. A high school valedictorian, he received a Ph.D. in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology. Died Feb. 3 in the Metro-North Railroad train accident.
Walter Liedtke, 69. Oversaw the collection and special exhibitions of European paintings at the Met Museum in Manhattan for the past 35 years. He was an authority on the works of Johannes Vermeer and Rembrandt. Died Feb. 3 in the Metro-North Railroad train accident.
Darwin award candidate?
Ping.
Ping.
People who do similar jobs often end up living among people of similar financial means.
A little tidbit for the dead banker list.
Quite a list of smart people.
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Someone has a serious hard on for JP Morgan bankers this last year...too much for coincidence I think
Eric Vandercar, 53. Senior managing director in institutional sales and trading and head of municipal funding at Mesirow Financial, in New York. He had previously spent 27 years at Morgan Stanley. Died Feb. 3 in the Metro-North Railroad train accident.
my daughter goes to school with his kids. He has young kids in grammar school.
The daughter of a buddy of mine was in the front car sitting on the side that took the damage...if you were sitting on the conductor side, window seat you got the worst of it...she was on the aisle- the guy next to her on the window had his legs sheared off...fortunately she had nursing training and tied a belt around his legs to quell the bleeding then led people out of the car after telling them to put something over their faces to breathe..
for some reason after this idiot woman got out of the car to inspect the damage she proceeded to drive over the tracks rather than back-up...the train forced the car under the third rail which was then pushed up into the passenger cars and caused all the damage...
i drive along the line (Harlem line) every day...just drove past the accident coming home 15 minutes ago...
A buddy of mine who works at Credit Suisse has told me that 90% of the people in his town work in finance. Those are the only ones who can afford the houses.
Well we really need to know what the population of the cars in general looked like. I'm not familiar with these trains, but if it was headed to certain very pricey neighborhoods, is it possible that most everybody on board is fairly wealthy? The cooks, maids, nannys, etc would probably be on one going in the opposite direction, back home to the city?
Can you comment on my post #11?
Thanks
IIRC...when ‘Climate Gate’ happened and dox were spilled....the emails revealed that the ‘scientists’ were in contact with the ‘World Bank’ and ‘J P Morgan’.
If you were on one side of the front care, you got sizzled. Not a bad way to kill somebody, if you can get a lady to volunteer to die on the tracks, can get all your intended victims to sit together on purpose, then magically figure out a way for the third rail to jump into the car.
Mostly, you need cooperation from all you intend to kill. Oh, and the conductor too.
Don’t forget the 40 microbiologists that have died.
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread115160/pg1
I think it’s safe to say that a train traveling to northern Westchester County during evening rush hour isn’t carrying a single passenger who is coming home after a day at work at the Hunts Point Terminal in the South Bronx.
Its like the new hipster population in Detroit. They aren’t moving to the hood. They’re going to fairly high dollar apartments right around downtown. All their neighbors are 30 something tech workers who drink microbrews in trendy bars and eat minimal high dollar artistic food in wildly overpriced restaurants.
Could be a scenario similar to the movie, “The Firm” (1993) starring Tom Cruise.
Movie trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMmE8RLieiA
Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) is a young man with a promising future in law. About to graduate from Harvard Law School, he receives a generous job offer from Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a small tax firm in Memphis. He and his wife, Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn), move to Memphis, where the Firm is located. Partner Avery Tolar (Gene Hackman) becomes his mentor.
Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, including a house and car, he is at first totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his new employer, although Abby has her suspicions. Then, two associates are murdered.
The FBI contacts him, asking him for information and informing him that the Firm is connected to the Morolto Mafia family. Every associate who has ever tried to leave the firm ends up murdered. Mitch knows he faces a stark choice. If he works with the FBI, he believes that even if he stays alive, he will have to disclose information about the firm’s legitimate clients—thus breaking the attorney–client privilege. However, he believes that if he stays with the firm, he will almost certainly go to jail when the FBI takes down both the firm and the Moroltos. Either way, his life as he knows it is over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Firm_%281993_film%29
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