Authorities Try To Find Kin Of Paterson Man Killed By Train

PATERSON, N.J. -- Authorities on Tuesday continued trying to find and notify the next of kin of a 29-year-old Paterson man who was struck and killed by a passing commuter train the night before.

NJ Transit train
Photo Credit: *CLIFFVIEW PILOT photo*

Jerry DeMarco

11/03/2015 12:30 p.m.

The #1163 train had left Hoboken at 4:23 p.m. -- due to arrive in Suffern at 5:19 p.m. -- and was passing through the city when it struck the man about seven train-car lengths west of the Paterson station just after 5 p.m., NJ Transit's Jennifer Nelson told Daily Voice.

There 350 passenger and three crew members aboard, she said.

Because the force of impact pushed him off the elevated track area, service was disrupted only briefly.

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