Chicago Transit Autority spokesman Brian Steele spoke with reporters about the crash at the O'Hare station at 5 a.m. (Published Monday, March 24, 2014) 
 
 Thirty-two people were injured — none seriously — when an eight-car Chicago Transit Authority train continued through the end of the platform and struck the escalators leading to the terminals at O'Hare International Airport early Monday morning. 
 
 "The train actually climbed over the last stop, jumped up on the sidewalk and then went up the stairs and escalators," Chicago Fire Department Commissioner Jose Santiago said of the crash, which happened just before 3 a.m. on the CTA's Blue Line. 
 
 He said it was immediately unknown if the train's motorman had some sort of medical problem prior to the crash but said that operator was walking, talking and answering questions afterward. 
 
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 CTA spokesman Brian Steele, speaking to reporters at 5 a.m., said it was too early to say what caused the crash but said video footage was being reviewed and personnel were being interviewed. He said there were no immediate indications that equipment issues played a role in the crash. 
 
 The O'Hare station has three "pockets" for trains, and each has a bumping post at the end -- a large piece of metal with a shock absorber mechanism behind it, Steele explained. 
 
 "It appears as though the train would have been going faster than a train normally berthing at this station would be," he said. "Normally a train pulls in at just a couple miles and hour and pulls into the station. Obviously this train did not stop so speed could be a factor here." 
 
 Of those injured, 12 were listed in fair condition at Resurrection Medical Center. All of the patients were adults and were being treated for bumps and bruises. Another seven people were taken to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital with reported neck and back pain. A supervisor at Swedish Covenant Hospital said the facility received five people from the crash. 
 
 "I thought it was just a hard stop at the train didn't even slow down when it was coming in," said a Transportation Security Administration employee who wished to not be identified. "It was chaos. ... People were freaking out. Trying to figure out what happened. Trying to make sure everyone was okay." 
 
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 Blue Line service north to O'Hare was stopped at the Rosemont station. Shuttle buses were brought in to continue the service to the airport. Service was also disrupted between Logan Square and Western because of planned track work. As a result, trains were operating only in two sections early Monday morning: Rosemont and Logan Square and Western and Forest Park. 
 
 Christopher Bushell, the transit agency's chief infrastructure officer, said the O'Hare airport station would remain closed for least "12 to 24 hours." 
 
 An official with The National Transportation Safety Board, which took over the investigation, later said commuter access to the station would be prohibited until at least Tuesday afternoon. 

 A worker puts up a tarp to cover the scene where a Chicago Transit Authority subway train crashed into a platform at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago March 24, 2014. 
 
 A derailed commuter train rests on an escalator at O'Hare international airport in Chicago March 24, 2014. 
 
 CHICAGO A passenger train crashed through the end of the line early Monday at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and barreled up an escalator and stairs, leaving 32 people with non-life threatening injuries, officials said. 
 
 The Chicago Transit Authority train, a mass transit train that ran on electricity, is expected to remain in place for at least a day while investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board try to determine how it jumped a bumper at the end of the line. 
 
 "The train is not going to go anywhere for the foreseeable future - it's not going anywhere today," NTSB investigator Tim DePaepe told a news conference. 
 
 Investigators will review station video of the train arriving and an outward-facing video recorder at the front of the electrified "L" train, along with signals and the train's condition, he said. 
 
 It was not immediately clear how fast the train was moving, but authorities were looking at speed as a possible factor, said transit authority spokesman Brian Steele. 
 
 "It's evident the train was going faster than it should," he said at the scene. 
 
 Neither the female train operator nor any of the passengers faced life-threatening injuries, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford. 
 
 DePaepe said the operator had been on duty for about six hours at the time of the crash. She was still being examined at a local hospital and had not yet been interviewed by investigators, DePaepe said. 
 
 Robert Kelly, president of Amalgamated Transit Union Local 308 that represents the operators, said the woman had worked more than 60 hours during the last seven days. 
 
 "The operator might have dozed off. She did indicate to me that she was extremely tired," said Kelly, who spoke to the operator after the crash. 
 
 "She doesn't have an explanation of how this happened." 
 
 Langford said the eight-car train jumped a bumper at the end of the line just before 3:00 a.m. Chicago time (0800 GMT). 
 
 It was not immediately clear how long train service on that part of the line will be suspended. Buses were shuttling passengers from O'Hare to the next train station, according to CTA officials. 
 
 Passersby gawked at the crash scene, with some people saying the incident made them a little more nervous about traveling by train. 
 
 "I feel like there's accidents all the time with the trains, but not this bad," said Meghan Cassin, 25, a Chicago resident who was heading to work after a trip to Florida. "They take corners really fast." 
 
 In September, an unmanned Chicago Transit Authority train collided with a standing train at a station in a western suburb of Chicago during the morning rush hour, injuring at least 33 people. 
 
 (Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Ken Wills)
– A pretty crazy train accident in Chicago this morning somehow did not cause any serious injuries: A Chicago Transit Authority train derailed as it pulled into the O'Hare International Airport station around 3am, and, well, we'll let the Fire Department commissioner take it from here: "The train actually climbed over the last stop, jumped up on the sidewalk, and then went up the stairs and escalators," says Jose Santiago. Thirty-two people were hurt, but none seriously, NBC Chicago reports. "Fortunately nobody was on the staircase," a Fire Department spokesperson tells Reuters. "Anybody on the staircase probably would have been killed." It's not yet clear what caused the crash—CTA is reviewing video footage—but there are "bumping posts," shock absorbers fronted by big pieces of metal, at the end of the three train "pockets" at O'Hare, yet somehow the train jumped the bumper and kept traveling through the end of the platform. "It appears as though the train would have been going faster than a train normally berthing at this station would be," says a CTA spokesperson. "Normally a train pulls in at just a couple miles and hour and pulls into the station. Obviously this train did not stop so speed could be a factor here." A TSA employee who witnessed the crash confirms, "The train didn't even slow down when it was coming in."