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VIDEO: this is what it looks like when a commuter train jumps the tracks

By Steve Kupferman
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Torontonians love to complain about the TTC, but there are far worse things than crowded platforms and late streetcars. The video above, uploaded to YouTube yesterday, appears to show the exact moment, at around 3 a.m. on Monday, when a Chicago Transit Authority train hopped a platform at O’Hare International Airport, causing around 30 non-life-threatening injuries and an estimated $6 million in damage. Investigators are now saying that the train operator dozed off at the controls and didn’t awake until impact.

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