Dozens injured, including 3 critically, in CTA train crash near Howard Street station

The National Transportation Safety Board announced that it was looking into the crash of a CTA Yellow Line train Thursday near the Howard Street station. Preliminary reports indicate a southbound train struck a slow-moving snowplow on the tracks. (Ashlee Rezin Sun-Times)

A Yellow Line train crashed into a slow-moving snowplow on the tracks near the Howard station on the North Side on Thursday, injuring at least 38 people, three of them critically. Four children, the youngest of whom was 2, were injured, suffering “bumps and bruises.”

None of the injuries was life-threatening.