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Blumenthal Inspects Wreckage, Meets Team Investigating Metro-North Crash

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) met with National Transportation Safety Board officials Friday and visited the North White Plains warehouse where the train wreckage from the horrific Metro-North collision is stored.

Sens. Chuck Schumer and Richard Blumenthal, and Reps. Nita Lowey and Sean Patrick Maloney meet with the National Transportation Safety Board officials on Friday.

Sens. Chuck Schumer and Richard Blumenthal, and Reps. Nita Lowey and Sean Patrick Maloney meet with the National Transportation Safety Board officials on Friday.

Photo Credit: Skip Pearlman
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer with U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, both of New York.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer with U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, both of New York.

Photo Credit: Skip Pearlman

He was joined by his New York colleagues U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer and U.S. Reps. Nita Lowey and Sean Patrick Maloney as he checked in on the investigation into the crash that killed the driver of an SUV as well as five train passengers Tuesday. 

Immediately after visiting the warehouse, the federal officials traveled to the site of the crash in Valhalla, N.Y., with NTSB officials to view the scene and be briefed on the ongoing investigation.

On Tuesday evening, a Metro-North train traveling on the Harlem Line struck an SUV on its tracks in Valhalla, killing six and injuring many more. It is the deadliest accident in Metro-North’s history.

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