Second New York rail derailment in days injures four

A commuter train derailed at New York's Penn Station today, lightly injuring four people in the second such incident in 10 days, officials said.
The train from Trenton came off the tracks at 9:00 am as it pulled into the bustling transport hub in Manhattan at low speed causing four minor injuries, a spokesperson for New Jersey Transit told AFP.
On March 24, an Amtrak train bound for Washington also came off the rails while pulling out of the station. Both incidents caused partial disruptions.
The US rail network suffers from chronic underfunding and accidents are not infrequent, particularly on the busy East Coast corridor.

Last September one woman was killed and more than 100 people injured when a train slammed into a station at Hoboken, New Jersey in what was then the fourth deadly crash in less than three years on the East Coast.