Update: Man Killed By Train in Red Bank Identified
A New Jersey Transit spokeswoman confirmed the death of a pedestrian in Red Bank.
Update, Oct. 8: The victim in Saturday night's fatal train accident was identified by a New Jersey Transit spokesperson as Donald Cameron Jr., a 51-year-old Red Bank man, according to the Star Ledger. An unidentified pedestrian killed by a New Jersey Transit train Saturday night in Red Bank purposefully laid on the tracks moments before being struck, according to an engineer's report of the incident. At approximately 9:18 p.m., a man trespassing on the railway was seen by a New Jersey Transit engineer walking onto the tracks near Maple Avenue and then laying down without moving. The engineer applied the train's emergency brakes and sounded the train's horn, according to Spokeswoman Nancy Snyder, but the man did not move from the tracks. …
Gary Parent
6:25 am on Tuesday, October 9, 2012
It is sad, I always wonder in cases like this what was so bad in this man's life that made him do this. more ›