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CSX officials say a freight train struck and killed a person on the company’s tracks in northern New Jersey.
The accident occurred around 9 p.m. Friday night in Harrington Park.
CSX spokeswoman Melanie Cost said the 16-car train was heading from Newark to Selkirk, N.Y., carrying a mix of freight when it struck a pedestrian. But she said further details on the victim, including their name and gender, were not immediately available.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation.
No other injuries were reported in the accident.
Police are now treating a deadly hit-and-run that occurred in Paulsboro, Gloucester County early Sunday morning as a homicide.
According to police, 31-year-old Eddie Lee Warthen was crossing East Madison Avenue around 4:30 a.m. when he was struck by a gray or silver, four-door car.
The victim was rushed to Cooper Trauma Center where he was pronounced dead about three hours later.
A man was killed in a three-car crash on Route 287 early Sunday morning, State Police said.
The crash occurred at about 2:04 a.m. near mile-marker 27.6 on Route 287 when a 2012 BMW driven by Calvin Luk, 25, of Mendham ran off the road to the left and struck a guardrail, State Police spokesman Trooper Jeff Flynn said.
Luk's BMW rotated across the highway and struck the guardrail on the right side before coming to a rest in the center and right lanes, Flynn said. Luk's vehicle was reported as driving erratically prior to the crash, he said.
Bergen County Police are investigating a fatal pedestrian accident Wednesday morning on Route 4 eastbound.
A pedestrian was struck and killed near the Grand Avenue entrance to Route 4 eastbound, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said on Twitter.
The pedestrian was dragged further up the highway, where the body was found at 4:15 a.m., Molinelli said.
Route 4 eastbound was still closed at Grand Avenue at 7:45 a.m. for the investigation. Police are detouring traffic to Grand Avenue southbound.
One man was killed and three people were injured when a car struck a concrete barrier on the New Jersey Turnpike in Newark early this morning.
The man, a passenger in the car, was ejected when the car lost control and hit a barrier while traveling northbound in the truck lanes, State Police said. Another man in the car suffered a severe neck injury, and two women in the car were also injured.
The woman driving the car was charged with driving while intoxicated, police said. Police have not yet identified anyone involved in the accident.
A 61-year-old city man died in a car crash on Tuesday evening at Bloomfield Avenue and Market Street, authorities said.
Richard Wozny was driving a 2008 Kia car when he sideswiped a 2013 Toyota Corolla stopped at a red light on Market Street at 6:11 p.m. Tuesday, Clifton Police Detective Lt. Michael Sweeney said. Wozny continued eastbound on Market Street into the intersection, struck a NJ Transit bus and then crashed into a utility pole.
Police have identified the mother who was killed and the daughter who was injured after they were hit by a pickup truck in Voorhees, New Jersey.
They are 63-year-old Serafina Fel of Cherry Hill and 38-year-old Anna Veksler, also of Cherry Hill.
Police say they were walking to their home from a nearby drug store and were in a crosswalk at the time of the crash, but it's unclear at this point if they had the signal.
Investigators said they were treating this as a possible 'distracted driving' case, but did not release further details.