Hoboken train crash: 1 dead, more than 100 injured

[Breaking news update, posted at 2:25 p.m.]

The governors of New Jersey and New York held a news conference this afternoon on the Hoboken train crash. Here's what we learned:

• One person was killed and 108 people were injured, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said.

• The engineer was "critically injured" and is receiving care at a hospital.

• The engineer is cooperating with law enforcement officials, Christie said.

• "The train came in at a high rate of speed into the station and crashed through all the barriers, bringing it right to the interior wall of the .. terminal," Christie said.

• Officials don't yet know how long it will take to repair the Hoboken train station or resume New Jersey Transit train service there, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. However, Port Authority Trans-Hudson Corporation (PATH) trains will resume service through Hoboken on Thursday afternoon, officials said. Engineers determined that the structural integrity of the potion of the station that serves PATH trains is intact.

• It is too early to know whether positive train control technology could have prevented Thursday's train crash in Hoboken, Cuomo said, because the reason for the train's high rate of speed isn't yet known. "Positive train control systems ... can be a benefit depending on the circumstances," but officials don't know all of the circumstances of Thursday's crash, Cuomo said.

[Previous story, posted at 2:11 p.m.]

A New Jersey Transit train plowed through a major station in Hoboken during Thursday morning's rush-hour commute, killing at least one person and injuring more than 100 others, officials said.

Witnesses said the train overran its stopping point, slammed into a bumper block, went airborne and hurtled through a passenger concourse at about 8:45 a.m. at the terminal, one of the busiest transit hubs in the New York area.

The person killed was standing on the platform when the train came into the station, two officials briefed on the matter said

Bhagyesh Shah, who rode in the back of the front car on his way to work, said the train didn't appear to slow as it entered the station.

"The next thing I know, I'm on the floor. We are plowing through something ... and when the train came to a stop, I could see the parts of the roof on the first car and some of the debris next to me," Shah said.

Images posted on social media showed severe structural damage at the terminal, where part of the roof appeared to have collapsed. Witnesses described people helping bloodied passengers, some trapped by debris, from the packed front car.