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NEW YORK (AP) — Officials say no one was injured, but two commuter trains scraped sides on the nation's biggest commuter railroad during rush hour Friday.
It happened around 6 p.m. at the Long Island Rail Road's Jamaica station in Queens. The trains were on parallel tracks, heading in opposite directions when they collided, breaking windows and snarling service on a railroad that carries nearly 300,000 passengers on an average weekday.
One of the trains had not cleared the platform, and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority says that allowed passenger to walk out safely.
LIRR President Patrick Nowakowski says the trains "obviously, should not have collided," but investigators are trying to figure out how they ended up so close.
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