Little Falls Train Crash Injures 10, Knocks out Power
A NJ Transit train collided with a tractor-trailer in Little Falls Wednesday morning and injured 10 people, two of them seriously.
[UPDATED 4:15 p.m.] Updates to include revised information on power outage from PSE&G spokeswoman. A NJ Transit passenger train slammed into a tractor-trailer in Little Falls, Wednesday morning, injuring several people, backing up traffic on Pompton Avenue and cancelling trains along the Montclair-Boonton line. PSE&G crews were originally supposed to disable power in Little Falls around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday to work on damaged power lines, but were unable to do so until the damaged tractor-trailer was removed, PSE&G spokesperson Kristine Snodgrass told Patch at 4 p.m. Wednesday. As of that time, the truck had yet to be removed and power had not been disrupted to Cedar Grove or Little Falls because the truck needed to be righted and towed …
BobbyK
9:20 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2012
As a resident of Broughton Ave for the past 31 years and a retired sergeant from Newark PD, WITH DEEP REGRETS, I have been waiting for a tragedy of this dimension for years. I have written emails, spoke to my councilwoman, at that time, about how Broughton Ave is an open race track from Bay Ave to Watchung Ave. One afternoon during the summer, the councilwoman was standing in my driveway and … more ›