NTSB: Emergency brake applied in deadly N.Y. rail crash

A witness who was in car behind the SUV told the NTSB that the vehicle stopped at the crossing, the driver came out of the SUV after the gate struck her vehicle and that she returned to the SUV and moved forward at the time of the collision, Sumwalt said.

Brody was killed in the collision along with train passengers Walter Liedtke, European paintings curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Eric Vandercar, a senior managing director for Mesirow Financial; Robert Dirks, a scientist with D. E. Shaw Research; and Joseph Nadol and Aditya Tomar of J.P. Morgan.

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