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Pedestrian strike
Hackensack, NJ
Police & Fire
Man Struck, Killed By NJ Transit Train In Hackensack: Officials
NJ Transit rail service was suspended along the Pascack Valley Line due to a fatal pedestrian strike in Bergen County on Thursday morning, May 22, officials said. The incident occurred around 11:36 a.m. near the Clinton Place crossing in Hackensack, NJ Transit said. Train #1624, which left Spring Valley at 10:55 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Hoboken at 12:05 p.m., struck and killed a man, rail officials said. There were no reported injuries to the 78 passengers or crew on board, officials said. Rail service on the Pascack Valley Line was immediately suspended in both directions. NJ …
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
Police & Fire
Ramsey Resident ID'd As Pedestrian Killed By Train (
Update
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Officials have identified the pedestrian struck and killed by an NJ Transit train on Monday, Dec. 16. John Redinger, 62, of Ramsey, was struck by Train No. 56 on the Port Jervis Line east of the Ramsey station around 9:15 a.m., NJ Transit spokesman Kyalo Mulumba said. The train, which departed Port Jervis at 7:39 a.m., was scheduled to arrive in Hoboken at 9:52 a.m. There were no injuries reported to the approximately 10 customers and crew on board. Port Jervis/Main/Bergen County Lines are suspended in both directions between Suffern and Waldwick. New Jersey Transit Police…
Hummelstown, PA
News
Central Penn Baseball Star Struck Dead By Tractor-Trailer On I-81: Coroner
A former college baseball player was struck dead on Interstate 81 on Sunday, Aug. 25, the Cumberland County Coroner Charley Hall told Daily Voice. Quinton J. Heckard, 26, of Hummelstown, was hit by a tractor-trailer on I-81 South at mile marker 61.7 at 8:13 a.m., according to Hall. The fatal pedestrian strike happened when "Heckard stepped in front of the truck from the shoulder of the road," Hall said. He was pronounced dead at the scene from "Multiple Traumatic Injuries at the scene," the coroner said but the manner of his death was not released. An investigation into …
Bel Air, MD
Police & Fire
Truck Driver Killed By Teen On Shoulder Of I-95: Maryland State Police
A pair of New Yorkers were involved in a fatal crash on I-95 in Harford County overnight, according to Maryland State Police. Rajwinder Singh, 22, of Hicksville, was killed on Wednesday, April 5, when he got out of his disabled tractor-trailer on the side of the interstate in Abingdon and was struck by Roosevelt resident Abbas Zaheer, 19, who police say lost control of his Toyota Camry. Shortly after 6 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, troopers from the JFK Memorial Highway Barrack were called to a stretch of southbound I-95 in Abington to investigate a reported pedestrian strike. Detectives sa…
Hamilton Township, NJ
Police & Fire
Details Released In Amtrak Strike Of Man, 39, That Caused Major Delays
A 39-year-old pedestrian was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in New Jersey, delaying rail service between Philadelphia and New York City Tuesday evening, Feb. 28, authorities said. The name of the man killed had not been released pending notification of family, said Lt. John Bresnen of the Plainsboro Police Department. Amtrak train 178 was traveling from Washington D.C. to Boston at 6:54 p.m. when the victim was struck east of Princeton Junction, an Amtrak spokesman said. The incident stranded frustrated customers on Northeast Corridor trains. As of 9:50 p.m., service was beginning …
