New York City, It’s called the City that Never Sleeps for a reason. Everyone who’s anyone in Manhattan works hard to stay there, so hard that some live in an entirely different state than New York, like Pennsylvania and New Jersey, just to be able to commute to New York for work.

Thankfully for commuters, the journey is not as hard or long as it might sound, thanks to the extensive underground railroad that leads to and from Manhattan. And when I say underground railroad, I don’t mean the secretive anti-slavery organization, I mean the literal underground railroad: the metro system. The metro system, also called the subway by locals, is the most convenient way for commuters to go to and from the City that Never Sleeps. But just today, on the morning of September 29, 2016, we were painfully reminded on how dangerous this public transportation can be.

At 8:30 AM this morning, September 29, 2016, a metro train going from New Jersey to New York crashed violently into Hoboken station, killing 3 people in the front car and wounding over 100, some of which had very critical injuries. The train showed no signs of slowing down before crashing through the protective barrier and into the station itself, destroying the front half of the first steel car.

One of the passenger survivor described the crash as if you ‘were in an off road vehicle,’ saying that ‘It was bumpy. You were being bounced around and then slammed forward.’ The police who rushed to the scene and bystanders described passengers frantically kicking out the windows, trying to escape the now destroyed train.

Just minutes later, another train pulled into the station, and all of its passengers were quickly emptied by the transit police, who had to evacuate them out of the building, saying that ‘We don’t know if the building is going to hold.’ As if the injured passengers weren’t enough to worry about, the building had sustained major structural damage, with destroyed beams, a crumbled wall, and a section of the metal shed roof collapsed.

The train was holding an estimated 250 passengers when it crashed.

Fortunately, New York has a very good first response team, and was able to scramble over 20 ambulances to the crash scene, and even had the New York Waterway ferry service take the crashed train’s passengers the rest of the way to New York.

Although the train did crash and many were hurt, I would like to credit the excellent structural build of the train itself and the building. Even though a multiple hundred-ton vehicle slammed into the side of the building going full speed, the building did not collapse in fully and held up, and the only the first car was severely damaged. This does not make the accident any less horrific, but it is important to note that the builds of the train the building protected the passengers a lot more than we realized.

Signing off, this is Jonathan with iHoot, Journalist and reporter.