Mayor Bill de Blasio said he was conspicuously absent from
the LIRR crash scene in Brooklyn on Wednesday because — while more than 100 people were injured in the horrifying rush - hour derailment — no one died, so it didn't rise to the «magnitude» of an event requiring his personal attention.
Mayor Bill de Blasio (inset) said the «magnitude» of the
LIRR crash was why he didn't attend the
scene of the accident in Brooklyn.