THE WOODLANDS, Texas Three Houston-area women were among the 150 passengers on board a New York City commuter train that derailed over the weekend.




Patton and her friends walked away with bruises.

Her and her two girlfriends were banged up pretty bad, said Thomas Patton, Sherill s husband.


She s upset. There was a lady who died in the car she was in, Thomas Patton said. She was in the third car almost gone into the river, and she s just sort of traumatized.


There was a passenger in front of her who said, The train is going too fast, Thomas Patton said. He braced himself, and they braced themselves before the accident. The outcome was they were able to walk away.


The train s engineer told investigators he tried to slow down, but the brakes failed.


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