新泽西列车撞站台事故引发安全性质疑
A runaway train ploughed into a New Jersey rail terminal on Thursday morning, killing at least one person, injuring 108 others and raising questions about the safety of the US’s second-busiest commuter railroad.
周四早晨，一辆失控火车撞上新泽西一火车站站台，至少造成一人死亡，108人受伤，这令外界对美国第二繁忙的通勤铁路的安全提出质疑。
The inbound train overshot the track at 8:45am and rammed the station in Hoboken, a transport hub on the west bank of the Hudson river across from Manhattan, according to New Jersey Transit. The commuter transport agency reported “multiple critical injuries” as a result of the crash, while the office of New Jersey governor Chris Christie confirmed one death.
新泽西运输公司(New Jersey Transit)表示，这辆进站火车于上午8点45分冲出轨道，撞上霍博肯火车站站台，霍博肯是曼哈顿对面、哈德逊河西岸的一个交通中心。这家通勤交通机构称，事故导致“多人严重受伤”，新泽西州州长克里斯•克里斯蒂(Chris Christie)办公室证实有一人死亡。
The accident came as NJ Transit, the train’s operator, is enmeshed in a political battle over transport financing. State legislators and Mr Christie have been unable to resolve differences over how to raise the state gasoline tax to invest in transport, including the more than century-old passenger rail system.
这列火车的运营商新泽西运输公司正因交通融资陷入政治纷争。州议员和克里斯蒂一直无法化解有关如何提高该州汽油税以投资于交通运输（包括拥有超过100年历史的客运铁路系统）的分歧。
At a news conference Mr Christie said: “The train came in at much too high a rate of speed. The question is why was that?” The engineer was hospitalised after the crash and co-operating with authorities, he said. While the crash was under investigation, “we have no indication this is anything other than a tragic accident.”
克里斯蒂在一个新闻发布会上表示：“火车进站时速度太快。问题是原因是什么？”他表示，事故发生后，司机受伤住院并正与当局合作。事故仍在调查之中，但“我们没有迹象表明这不止是一起悲惨的意外事故。”
There have been persistent questions about NJ Transit’s governance since superstorm Sandy swamped the US north-east in 2012. Managers at the system, owned by the state of New Jersey, failed to move rolling stock from a rail yard threatened by the storm surge, meaning that flooding wrecked hundreds of the system’s railcars.
自从超级风暴桑迪(Sandy)于2012年登陆美国东北部地区以来，新泽西运输公司就一直因其治理面临质疑。该公司由新泽西州所有，其管理者未能将铁路车辆从一个遭受风暴威胁的铁路站场撤离，结果洪水毁坏了该公司数百辆铁路车辆。
NJ Transit said train number 1614 had travelled to Hoboken from Spring Valley, New York, about an hour and 15 minutes north. A passenger, Jamie Weatherhead-Sal, said she was standing between the first and second cars of the train because there was not enough room inside.
新泽西运输公司表示，这辆编号为1614的火车从纽约春谷(Spring Valley)向北驶向霍博肯车站，大约1小时15分钟行程。一位名叫杰米•韦瑟黑德-萨(Jamie Weatherhead-Sal)的乘客表示，她当时站在列车的第一节和第二节车厢之间，因为车厢里面没有空间。
“We approached the station and the train just felt like it never stopped. It didn’t slow down,” she told WNBC-TV.
她告诉WNBC-TV：“我们抵达车站的时候，列车似乎还在行驶。它没有减速。”
The cause of the crash has not yet been determined. The National Transportation Safety Board, a federal agency, was dispatching a team from Washington to take over the investigation.
事故原因暂时没有定论。美国国家交通运输安全委员会(NTSB)正从华盛顿派出工作组展开调查。
