Tuesday, April 19, 2016

SOUTH ORANGE TRAIN DEATH SPARKS BIG DELAYS

If you were trying to get home on NJ Transit last night from New York, you saw the delays. Some trains were delayed up to an hour after the incident, which is still being investigated.

The cause: a fatal accident in South Orange where a woman was killed when she went on the tracks

NJ.com reported:

SOUTH ORANGE - A person described as a female trespasser was killed by an NJ Transit train near the station, the agency said in an alert.
A spokeswoman said the victim was struck shortly before 5 p.m. by a Hoboken-boud train. NJ Transit police were at the scene investigating as of about 5:45 p.m.
Service along the Morris and Essex line was suspended but was restored about a half-hour later. There were lingering delays along the Morris and Essex line of about an hour, the spokeswoman also said.