http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051201/NEWS01/512010330/1005 12/1/05 - Posted from the Daily Record newsroom Two killed by passenger trains within 48 hours Men struck on NJ Transit tracks in Montville, MorrisTwp. BY ROB JENNINGS, DAILY RECORD MONTVILLE -- A man running on the NJ Transit tracks was killed by a train on Wednesday afternoon. It was the second fatality in less than 48 hours involving a train and a pedestrian in Morris County. Authorities hadn't yet determined the identity of the man, believed to be in his 30s, because multiple forms of identification were found on his body, NJ Transit spokesman Dan Stessel said Wednesday night. He was pronounced dead at the scene following the 4:40 p.m. accident, Stessel said. Train service was suspended between Lincoln Park and Denville for three hours and eight buses were used to transport displaced commuters, Stessel said. Sixty people were aboard the 3:47 p.m. train from Hoboken to Dover - NJ Transit train No. 1003 on the Boonton line - at the time of the fatal collision, Stessel said. Stessel said the man was first glimpsed by the engineer while he was standing adjacent to the tracks. The man "then stepped between two rails and began running on the track away from the train," Stessel said. The emergency brake was applied but the train was still going approximately 60 mph when it struck the man, Stessel said. It was the 14th fatality involving a pedestrian and a NJ Transit train this year, compared to 25 fatalities in 2004, Stessel said. The 13th fatality came on Monday, when Timothy M. Neville, 20, of Morris Township, was struck and killed in Morris Township by a Midtown Direct train en route to Dover at 7:20 p.m., Stessel said. Stessel said that Neville "jumped out from behind a signal case, adjacent to the railroad, directly into the path of the train," Stessel said. The 100 passengers on the train were transferred to another train. Service was suspended for an hour, until one track was reopened at 8:20 p.m. and the second at 10:30 p.m. Rob Jennings can be reached at (973) 428-6667 or robjennings_@_gannett.com. ======= The train involved Monday was 6655. My return ride from Millburn was delayed 25 minutes at Summit while waiting for trains ahead to proceed. I did not see anything at the site, a grade crossing west of Convent station. I would have ridden the Boonton Line home from Bloomfield last night but had to drive my son to a class, so I drove to the meeting. My return train would not have been delayed. Gary R. Kazin DL&W Milepost R35.7 Rockaway, New Jersey __________________________________ Yahoo! Music Unlimited Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited/ The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org ------------------------------
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