Train clips man trying to take cellphone pic on Hackensack tracks

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A 24-year-old Garfield man walking on the tracks was issued a pair of summonses after he was clipped on the hand by a passenger train as he used his cellphone to try and take a photo this afternoon, authorities told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Photo Credit: *Cliffview Pilot File Photo*

Jerry DeMarco

11/09/2014 8:56 p.m.

Marco Calvo was walking on the tracks with earbuds in near the Essex Street station when he tried to take a photo, NJ Transit’s Nancy Snyder said this afternoon.

“He realized he was too close, stepped out of hte way and was grazed by the train,” Snyder told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Calvo refused medical treatment for a cut on his hand, she said.

NJ Transit police charged him with defiant trespassing and interference of transportation.

The Hoboken-bound train, with 76 passengers and crew members aboard, arrived an hour later, Snyder said.

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