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Gilchrest Road, New York crossing accident
The Gilchrest Road crossing accident was a level crossing accident that occurred on March 24, 1972 in the town of Clarkstown, New York, between Valley Cottage and Congers, roughly 25 miles north of New York City. Five students from Valley Cottage were killed, and 44 other students were injured.
The Penn Central (formerly New York Central) railway crossing at Gilchrest Road West, just outside of Valley Cottage, contained only crossbucks and lacked additional warning hardware, such as flashing lights or a warning bell. The railway line was also difficult for road vehicles to see due to the curvature of the road and lineside trees.
==Accident==
On the morning of March 24, 1972, 35-year-old Joseph Larkin was driving a Nyack High School school bus, loaded past capacity, downhill on Gilchrest Road. Penn Central freight train number 2653 (for its lead locomotive, a GE U25B), travelling at 25 miles per hour with 83 loaded freight cars (73 from origin at Weehawken, New Jersey, plus ten more picked up en route at North Bergen), destined for Penn Central's Selkirk, New York yard, was heading towards the Gilchrest Road crossing, and began blowing its horn. Larkin did not decrease the speed of the bus as he approached the grade crossing. The train engineer saw the bus cross the tracks and immediately applied the brakes. However, the train's momentum carried it through the crossing, where it collided with the bus. The freight train ripped through the school bus, severing it into two sections, with the front half coming to rest down the tracks.
Three students were killed instantly. 45 more students and Larkin were rushed to a nearby hospital, where two more students died from injuries they had sustained. Some of the children that survived required artificial limbs.
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