Man takes own life on NJ Transit tracks in Glen Rock

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: A man ducked under a railroad crossing gate in Glen Rock as an NJ Transit train approached, then deliberately was struck and killed tonight, an agency spokeswoman said.

Jerry DeMarco

02/15/2014 1:14 a.m.

The man “ran underneath the grade crossing gate onto the gauge of the tracks and made no attempt to move” from the approaching Port Jervis-bound train carrying 450 or so customers and crew members at Rock Road near the CVS at 6:50 p.m., NJ Transit’s Nancy Snyder told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Glen Rock police were first on the scene, followed by the Bergen County Police, NJ Transit police and a paramedic unit from the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood.

The Bergen County Medical Examiner’s Office made the pronouncement soon after.

NJ Transit police were investigating.

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