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Trespassing Pair Get Summonses After Stopping Rush-Hour Commuter Train In Fair Lawn Trespassing Pair Get Summonses After Stopping Rush-Hour Commuter Train In Fair Lawn
Trespassing Pair Get Summonses After Stopping Rush-Hour Commuter Train In Fair Lawn Two trespassers loitering on the railroad tracks in Fair Lawn forced a commuter train to stop during rush hour when it hit a backpack that one of them was carrying, authorities said. "They're lucky they only got away with summonses," an official source said following the incident at the Fair Lawn Avenue crossing near the Radburn station shortly before 6 p.m. Friday, June 16. No one was injured. However, 175 passengers and crew on the Suffern-bound 1167 train out of Hoboken were inconvenienced by the stop, which also blocked the railroad crossing to vehicular and pedestrian traffic while F…