A rookie PATH train operator’s inexperience is the likely cause of a crash that injured dozens of passengers and turned part of a Hoboken, NJ, station platform into rubble, The Post has learned.
Federal and local investigators trying to determine the cause of the May 8 morning accident have determined the operator was barreling into the station at more than three times the proper speed, sources said.
“It was operator error,” one official told The Post after reviewing investigators’ findings.
“You always want to train people as well as possible; she was inexperienced.”
Though the probe’s results will not be released for months, the only conclusion, the sources said, is that Astrid Brown — whom they said had finished her training just months before the incident — was going too fast to stop before smashing into the end of the line.
Brown could not be reached for comment.
