Train Collision (Bridgeport, CT) 7/12/18

BRIDGPORT, CT - Shortly before 2pm on July 12, 2018, the Bridgeport Fire Department was dispatched to the train tracks behind the Bluefish Stadium for a reported Metro-North train collision. Fortunately, the trains were traveling at a low rate of speed and they were not carrying passengers at the time. Three Metro-North workers were injured and had to be packaged by the fire department and transported by stokes baskets down from the elevated area of the tracks where this accident occurred.