NJ Transit Train Engneer Kills 2 Girls On Track January 12, 1984

 

TRAIN KILLS 2 GIRLS ON TRACKS

By James Barron

• Jan. 12, 1984

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Two 13-year-old girls were struck and killed by an N.J. Transit express passenger train as they walked along a curving stretch of railroad tracks in Maplewood, N.J., shortly after dark yesterday, the authorities said.

A boy who was with them injured an arm when he leaped out of the path of the path of the onrushing locomotive, which was operated by N.J. Transit, the state public transportation agency.

The accident occurred at 5:57 P.M. as the Hoboken-to-Summit train rounded around a bend and approached the Baker's Street bridge in Maplewood, according to Anthony L. Grazioso, a spokesman for N.J. Transit.

Mr. Grazioso said the engineer saw several people trying to get off the tracks just west of the Maplewood station, but could not stop the train in time. The engineer was not identified.

Mr. Grazioso said the two victims, whose identities were withheld by the police, were pronounced dead at the scene. He said they had lived in the nearby community of Millburn and had been walking along the tracks between Millburn and Maplewood with four boys, including the one whose arm was hurt.

The four-car electric-powered train that hit them, No. 309, had pulled out of Hoboken at 5:11 P.M., Mr. Grazioso said. It was an express on the Morristown line, and had been traveling at a speed 40 to 45 miles an hour when it rounded the curve.