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6 killed, 12 hurt when train hit SUV near New York City
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(CNN) At least six people died and 12 were injured Tuesday night when a Metro North commuter train plowed into a vehicle on the tracks north of New York City, a Metro-North Railroad official tells CNN.

Five of the people killed in the fiery crash were train passengers, and the sixth fatality was a female driver of a Jeep, the official said.

A Metro Transit Authority official said the collision happened about 7 p.m. when the gates at the two-track Commerce Street crossing near Valhalla came down on top of a Jeep Cherokee stopped on the tracks.

The driver got out to look at the rear of the vehicle, drove forward and was struck, the MTA official said. She was outside the vehicle when the train struck, the official said.