NJ TRANSIT Bus And Car Collide In Newark
NJ TRANSIT says the Number 34 bus was headed from Montclair to Newark's Penn Station with 29 people aboard when the crash occurred on Martin Luther King Boulevard early Monday.
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NJ TRANSIT says the Number 34 bus was headed from Montclair to Newark's Penn Station with 29 people aboard when the crash occurred on Martin Luther King Boulevard early Monday.
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The drivers will be paid while the investigation proceeds, but cannot drive buses.
Full service resumes Monday morning for NJ TRANSIT trains at the Hoboken terminal.
Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Bob Menendez and 12 members of Congress made the request to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx after last month's train crash in Hoboken.
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Tracks 10 to 17 reopened for rail service, but Tracks 1 to 9 remain out of service as repair work continues.
Commuters who were on the NJ TRANSIT train that crashed at the Hoboken terminal will be allowed to retrieve their items they may have left behind.
NJ TRANSIT rail service remains partially suspended in and out of Hoboken following a deadly train crash. Some service out of Hoboken Terminal is set to resume Oct. 10.
Federal investigators revealed Thursday that a NJ TRANSIT train that crashed into Hoboken's terminal was going twice the speed limit at the moment of impact.
NJ TRANSIT has been blocking media access following the deadly train crash at the Hoboken terminal last week.
Crews are preparing to remove a NJ TRANSIT train from Hoboken Terminal, where it crashed a week ago killing 34-year-old Fabiola Bittar de Kroon and injuring more than 100 people, sources told CBS2.
NJ TRANSIT has released its service plan for Tuesday's commute.
Investigators haven't been able to extract a second data recorder, located in the cab control car in the front of the train, because it is under a collapsed section of the train station's roof.
NJ TRANSIT has released its service plan for Monday's commute following Thursday's deadly train crash in Hoboken.
One event recorder recovered so far from the NJ TRANSIT commuter train that crashed in Hoboken killing one and injuring more than 100 more was not functioning on the day of the crash, officials said Sunday.
Federal investigators said the crew is cooperating but they still are unable to get to the rail cars following the NJ TRANSIT train crash at the Hoboken terminal that left one woman dead and injured more than 100 people.
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NJ TRANSIT'S rail service remains suspended in and out of Hoboken Friday, but the agency is expanding bus, rail and light rail service.
It happened around 8:45 a.m. Thursday as a NJ TRANSIT train was coming into the Hoboken station on track 5 from Spring Valley, New York on the Pascack Valley Line, the agency said.
Johnny Harris was on the train that struck the station Thursday morning, but he got off in Woodbridge just minutes before it made impact.
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