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   At least six people are dead after a crowded Metro-North   
   commuter train hit a vehicle on the tracks north of White   
   Plains, New York, Tuesday night, sparking a fire that gutted the   
   lead car of the train, according to the MTA.   
      
   Among the dead were five passengers on the train and the driver   
   of the black Jeep Cherokee that was struck. The Metropolitan   
   Transportation Authority said the gates came down on top of the   
   SUV at the crossing, which was stopped on the tracks. The driver   
   got out to look at the rear of the car, then she got back in and   
   drove forward and was struck.   
      
   Passengers were evacuated to the back of the Harlem Line train   
   then were taken to a local rock-climbing gym for shelter, the   
   Cliffs. Buses were en route there to get to them to   
   Pleasantville, a spokesperson for the railroad said.   
      
   At least 12 other passengers were injured and taken to area   
   hospitals. The train left New York's Grand Central Station at   
   5:44 p.m. and the collision occurred at 7:08 p.m. ET.   
      
   Aerial video of the scene showed the head car of the train in   
   flames and at least one vehicle crushed beneath it. The vehicle   
   was struck at the Commerce St. grade crossing in Hawthorne.   
      
   Harlem Line Service was temporarily suspended between North   
   White Plains and Pleasantville, the railroad tweeted.   
      
   More than 750 passengers were estimated to be on board,   
   including Justin Kaback, commuting home to Danbury, Connecticut.   
      
   "I was trapped. You know there was people in front of me and   
   behind me and I was trapped in the middle of a car and it was   
   getting very hot," he told ABC News. "All the air was turned off   
   so there was no circulation so it was definitely scary   
   especially when people are walking by on the outside and they   
   said, the train's on fire, there's a fire."   
      
   http://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-metro-north-train-car-collision-   
   fire/story?id=28704215   
      
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