Posted by Caitlin Mazzola. Reported and written by Trumbull editor Aaron Leo.
Passenger Hector Navarro of Hartford compared the impact with a rollercoaster braking. He showed a picture where one side of the train looked as if it rode up on the other train.
He added he had just been on a car accident where he was rear-ended.
"This was worse," he said.
Another passenger, Chris Martin of Wallingford, said the train "just sort of skidded to a halt really quickly."
"Then we sat for a few minutes."
When he was walking back to the street, the front of the train looked like "a crumpled tin can," he said.
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