Fair Lawn train death 21st this year for NJ Transit

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A man was struck and killed by a commuter train in Fair Lawn at the border of Elmwood Park this afternoon in an apparent suicide — the 21st such fatality for NJ Transit this year.

Photo Credit: *Cliffview Pilot File Photo*

Jerry DeMarco

08/17/2013 8:46 p.m.

No passengers were aboard the Hoboken-bound Bergen line train when the 33-year-old Fair Lawn man stepped into its path just east of the Broadway station and was struck just after 1:40 p.m., NJ Transit spokesman William Smith told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Traffic was suspended between the Plauderville station in Garfield and Ridgewood for about an hour and 15 minutes before being restored.

Bergen County has had nearly a third of the total suicides by train for NJ Transit, officials said.

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