Please, don’t believe this was and accident. They knew full well what would happen. Now, they will beg the taxpayer to buy new ones. Just think of all the union jobs that will “save”.
I believe most of the NJ TRANSIT fleet is manufactured by Bombardier in Quebec. To add insult to injury, there are likely to be extensive delays in the repairs and replacement of this rolling stock ... since the workers at the Bombardier plant have been on strike for a while.