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The 5-foot-2-inch woman was hit by part of the train — bound for Spring Valley from Hoboken — at 2:45 p.m., NJ Transit spokeswoman Courtney Carroll told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
Police cleared Broadway so that HUMC medics could rush the woman to HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley, where AirMed One was waiting, just after 3:15.
Initial reports are that the woman, who lives less than two blocks from the station, sustained a severe puncture wound to the chest. Westwood police escorted a relative who was with her to the hospital.
Police from Westwood, Emerson and Hillsdale, among others, responded and were seeking witnesses.
The scene at the Westwood train station (ALL PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT)
Some of the 10 commuters aboard the train told CLIFFVIEW PILOT they were unaware of what happened until they saw the woman being tended to on the station side of the tracks.
Several people who gathered in various spots along Broadway said they hadn’t seen anything.
Pascack Valley Line service was initially suspended between Emerson and Spring Valley in both directions and was restored at 4:20 p.m.
Just a short time earlier, the Kmart a half-mile away was evacuated as authorities investigated a bomb scare. The Bergen County Bomb Squad found nothing amiss at the Broadway store, a half-mile northwest of the station, which was reopened just before 4 p.m.
Traffic in both areas was congested — particularly downtown, near the train station — for nearly two hours.
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