by kman73
Can't believe no one's posted this yet. Here's the info, from the Rockland Journal News:
TRAIN HITS CAR AT NORTH JERSEY CROSSING
By Gerald McKinstrey
[email protected]
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: May 3, 2005)
NORTHVALE, N.J. —A New Jersey woman is at Hackensack Medical Center today after a CSX Transportation train crashed into the rear of her car while she tried to cross train tracks on Clinton Avenue, Northvale police said.
Captain Bruce Tietjen of the Northvale Police Department said the accident occurred at 10 a.m. after the Northvale resident tried to drive across the tracks.
Police said two gates were down to indicate a train was coming and that they are working with with CSX investigators.
Tietjen said the woman was heading eastbound on Clinton Avenue toward Tappan Road. The rear of a silver Toyota Camry was smashed like a soda can as emergency personnel from the Northvale Police Department, Northvale Volunteer Ambulance Corps and members of the Northvale, Tappan and Sparkill-Palisades fire departments arrived on the scene.
Capt. Frank Pagliaroli, of the Sparkill-Palisades Fire Department, said about 50 people responded to the crash and firefighters cut the roof of the car and Northvale EMS lifted her out of the driver's seat. No one else was in the car, he said.
"She's very lucky," Pagliaroli said. "She's alive."
Rob Paton, who owns a landscaping company on Clinton Avenue, said he heard a loud crash around near the entrance of Veterans Memorial Park.
After seeing a baby seat, small cooler and pieces of the car scattered around an approximate 30-foot radius, he said he approached the car and saw the woman was alive, bleeding from her mouth and in an apparent state of shock.
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TRAIN HITS CAR AT NORTH JERSEY CROSSING
By Gerald McKinstrey
[email protected]
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: May 3, 2005)
NORTHVALE, N.J. —A New Jersey woman is at Hackensack Medical Center today after a CSX Transportation train crashed into the rear of her car while she tried to cross train tracks on Clinton Avenue, Northvale police said.
Captain Bruce Tietjen of the Northvale Police Department said the accident occurred at 10 a.m. after the Northvale resident tried to drive across the tracks.
Police said two gates were down to indicate a train was coming and that they are working with with CSX investigators.
Tietjen said the woman was heading eastbound on Clinton Avenue toward Tappan Road. The rear of a silver Toyota Camry was smashed like a soda can as emergency personnel from the Northvale Police Department, Northvale Volunteer Ambulance Corps and members of the Northvale, Tappan and Sparkill-Palisades fire departments arrived on the scene.
Capt. Frank Pagliaroli, of the Sparkill-Palisades Fire Department, said about 50 people responded to the crash and firefighters cut the roof of the car and Northvale EMS lifted her out of the driver's seat. No one else was in the car, he said.
"She's very lucky," Pagliaroli said. "She's alive."
Rob Paton, who owns a landscaping company on Clinton Avenue, said he heard a loud crash around near the entrance of Veterans Memorial Park.
After seeing a baby seat, small cooler and pieces of the car scattered around an approximate 30-foot radius, he said he approached the car and saw the woman was alive, bleeding from her mouth and in an apparent state of shock.
K
