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A Metro-North Railroad train engineer has been suspended pending an investigation after he was filmed apparently reading a newspaper while operating a rush hour train, according to a report by NBC 4 New York.

MTA officials declined to name the engineer Thursday but said he has been an employee since 1988 and an engineer since 2001.

The video was given to NBC 4 New York by a viewer and the news station brought it to Metro-North.

“He only looked up when the bells went off,” John Bingham told NBC 4 New York, referring to the sounds that signal when the train was approaching a station. “That made me nervous. What if one of the bells didn’t go off and something happened with the train?”

Bingham told the station he was on the 8:34 Grand Central-bound train on the Harlem line. He boarded the train Wednesday morning in Wakefield, N.Y.

An MTA statement to NBC 4 New York said “reading anything, texting or using cell phones while operating a train is obviously not acceptable.”

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UPDATE: The intersection has been cleared.

A telephone pole got the better part of an older model Chevy on West Broad Street and Mill River tying up traffic on Stamford’s West Side.

Police, fire and EMS are on scene with one patient who is suffering from non-life threatening injuries according to Stamford Police Lt. Sean Cooney.

Emergency personnel are responding to the scene of an accident between exits 10 and 9, the Newtown Hook & Ladder fire company tweeted.

Several injuries were reported, although their seriousness is unclear. Westbound traffic will likely be adversely affected.

State police and Fairfield fire and rescue units are on the scene of a motor vehicle accident on I-95 southbound between Exits 23 and 24.

One injured person is being transported to a Bridgeport hospital. Traffic is backing up behind it for about 5 miles, to Exit 30. The left lane is closed at this time.

Check back here for updates.