Another Driver Trapped at Metro-North Crossing Near Site of Deadly Crash

A driver got stuck between railroad crossing gates and escaped, not far from the crossing where a fiery crash between a train and another car killed six people last month, police said.

The driver freed her car by backing up and breaking a crossing arm, according to Westchester County officials.

Cynthia Parent told police she was crossing the Metro-North Railroad tracks on Roaring Brook Road in Chappaqua on Saturday when a gate came down, trapping her, The Journal News reported

Last month in Valhalla, about 6 miles south of Chappaqua, an SUV on the tracks was hit by a train. The driver and five passengers on the train were killed.

A conductor reported that the gate was damaged, and a stop-and-warn order was issued to trains going through the crossing, said the MTA.

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