A female driver pitched off an overpass in Mount Vernon, N.Y. during tonight's commute, crashing some 30 feet down onto the New Haven line tracks and defying almost certain death amid four sets of rails - each with 600 volts of direct-current electricity.
Details about the driver and the extent of her injuries were not immediately known, but Metro-North spokesman Dan Brucker said she survived.
"It was not New Haven line commuters' lucky day, but it sure as hell was her lucky day," Brucker said.
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Commuters from all around Westchester, N.Y. and Fairfield counties were affected, bound for stations such as Larchmont, Rye, Greenwich and Fairfield, with train service stopped completely for about 45 minutes in both directions, until 8:32 p.m., which is when service resumed at a reduced pace.
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