Saturday, October 13, 2012
Donna Zoldan of Highland Park was killed yesterday on the Amtrak tracks in Edison, Amtrak officials said.
The woman who stepped out in front of an Amtrak train yesterday near Metropark has been identified. Donna Zoldan, 49, of Highland Park was killed October 10 when she was struck by the speeding train at approximately 12:12 pm on the tracks near Talmadge Road and Route 27 in Edison, according to Amtrak officials. The area is about 4-1/2 miles south of the Metropark station in the Iselin section of Woodbridge. The Amtrak train which struck Zoltan was travelling south from New York to Washington, DC, said Steve Kulm, Amtrak spokesman. There were no injuries to the 220 passengers on board the train or to the crew, Kulm said. "We transferred the passengers to another train," he added. The fatality did not disrupt train traffic as much as it …
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Donna Zoldan of Highland Park was killed yesterday on the Amtrak tracks in Edison, Amtrak officials said.
The woman who stepped out in front of an Amtrak train yesterday near Metropark has been identified. Donna Zoldan, 49, of Highland Park was killed October 10 when she was struck by the speeding train at approximately 12:12 p.m. on the tracks near Talmadge Road and Route 27 in Edison, according to Amtrak officials. The area is about 4-1/2 miles south of the Metropark station in the Iselin section of Woodbridge. The Amtrak train which struck Zoltan was travelling south from New York to Washington, DC, said Steve Kulm, Amtrak spokesman. There were no injuries to the 220 passengers on board the train or to the crew, Kulm said. "We transferred the passengers to another train," he added. The fatality did not disrupt train traffic as much as it …
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
The man was trespassing on the tracks, according to Amtrak.
A 20-year-old man was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Edison near the station Saturday afternoon, according to officials. David Sobel, of Pennington, was killed in the crash, said NJ Transit spokeswoman Nancy Snyder. Amtrak train #87 was traveling from New York to Richmond, Va. when the train struck Sobel at 3:49 p.m., said Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae Graham. He was trespassing on the tracks. There were 215 passengers on the train and there were no injuries to them or the crew, Graham said. The crash led to major delays on the Northeast Corridor line. Snyder said the investigation into the crash is ongoing. This article was originally published at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, and updated at 2:25 p.m. Tuesday.
BP
1:01 am on Saturday, October 20, 2012
Why? Because the country is rail-locked and pedestrian crossings a.k.a. crossings aren't there. Why is Steve Kuln who was a worthless railroad bought hand puppet in the Federal Railroad-bought Association doing as a talkin' head for Amtrak? Would it be because AMTRAK has the worse/best kill rate per mile traveled in the country for ANY business? more ›