A trove of federal investigatory documents and eerie photos from February’s deadly collision between a New York commuter train and an SUV driven by suburban Jewish mom Ellen Brody still can’t answer why she appeared not to realize that she was in mortal danger. The National Transportation Safety Board made its file public Wednesday and…
For the first time, the daughters of train crash mom Ellen Brody, who was killed when her SUV was struck in February’s gruesome Metro-North tragedy, are speaking out. In a preview of their interview with Matt Lauer, they describe the night their dad came home, hours after the collision that also killed five men in…
In gut-wrenching ceremonies two hours and 22 miles apart from each other, family and friends said difficult goodbyes on Friday to the mother of one Westchester family and the father of another, both killed in this week’s New York commuter train tragedy. The question on mourners’ minds, the question many of us ask in these…
Final farewells for two of the 6 victims of this week’s fiery New York commuter train accident will be held two hours apart this morning, including the mother of three who was behind the wheel of the SUV the train slammed into on Tuesday night. Friends and loved ones of Ellen Brody, 49, and Eric…
(Reuters) — The New York commuter train that plowed into a car stopped on a crossing this week was traveling just below the speed limit and no problem was found with the signals or traffic barriers at the site of the deadly crash, a federal investigator said on Thursday. But preliminary data released after the…
The funeral for Ellen Brody, the Jewish mother of three killed in Tuesday’s deadly Metro-North train crash, will take place at 10 a.m. Friday at Chabad of the Rivertowns in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. The funeral time and place were announced by her husband, Alan Brody. The accident was the deadliest in Metro-North history. Brody, 49,…
The driver of an SUV at the center of a deadly crash with a New York commuter train has been identified as Ellen Schaeffer Brody, a Jewish mother of three from suburban Scarsdale. Brody, 49, was the driver whose car became stuck at a railway crossing when a train slammed into the vehicle, killing her…
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