"The gates came down on top of the vehicle, which was stopped on the tracks," Aaron Donovan, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said in a statement. "The driver got out to look at the rear of the car, then she got back in and drove forward and was struck."
Another driver stopped directly behind the SUV said he started to back up to give the vehicle's driver room but instead she pulled forward.
The fiery scene began to unfold when the Harlem Line train struck the black Mercedes-Benz SUV at the narrow, two-lane Commerce Street crossing, causing an explosion that engulfed both the car and the train.
The car was "pushed about 1,000 feet down the tracks. Some 400 feet of the electrified third rail sliced through the first car of a Metro-North train after it plowed into an SUV, burning the entire interior of the train car and killing five passengers, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board investigation confirmed this evening.
It seems that the third rail caused most of the damage and the fire. Just a thought.
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