At least seven people have been killed after a New York commuter train hit a vehicle stuck on the track during the evening suburban rush hour.<br /><br /> The collision sparked an explosion and fire, and around a dozen people are said to have been seriously injured.<br /><br /> Hundreds were on the train at White Plains just north of the city when the crash happened.<br /><br /> “We started to hear people further up toward the head of the second car starting to panic a bit and they were calling for a fire extinguisher which we were able to go to the back of the second car and get — tried to pass that up into the head car. We could not get the head car’s door open for some reason,” said passenger Jamie Wallace.<br /><br /> New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told a news conference after visiting what he said was a devastating scene.<br /><br /> “This is a truly ugly and brutal sight,” he told reporters. “The third rail of the track came up from the explosion and went right through the (rail) car, it’s a devastatingly ugly situation.”<br /><br /> Thos
