Metro-North Found Primarily Responsible For Deadly 2015 Train Crash In Valhalla, N.Y.

By CBS New York Team

July 18, 2024

NEW YORK -- A jury on Tuesday found Metro-North primarily responsible for a Feb. 3, 2015 deadly train crash in Westchester County.

Six people were killed and more than a dozen were injured when a Harlem line train struck an SUV that had gotten stuck on the tracks in Valhalla. The crash remains the deadliest in Metro-North's history.

The jury said the railroad was at fault for its design of the third rail system and the engineer, Steven Smalls, was at fault for how he operated the train.

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