A train and a truck collided in December 2013 at a crossing in West Nyack, N.Y. (credit: Peter Haskell/WCBS 880)A train and a truck collided in December 2013 at a crossing in West Nyack, N.Y. (credit: Peter Haskell/WCBS 880)
WEST NYACK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — Freight trains travel too fast through Rockland County, too many of the tanker cars are unsafe, and there’s not enough coordination with rail companies, U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey says.
Lowey, D-Westchester/Rockland, and several other elected officials called Monday for the U.S. Department of Transportation to set stricter standards on freight trains, WCBS 880’s Peter Haskell reported.
The pleas came during a news conference at Pineview Road near Western Highway in West Nyack, where a freight train collided with a truck carrying vehicles on Dec. 6. In that accident, the tanker train had 99 empty cars.
