(The Associated Press circulated the following article on November 21.)
BRADLEY BEACH, N.J. — A man was struck and killed early Tuesday by a New Jersey commuter train sent to pick up passengers stranded after their first train hit and killed someone else, authorities said.
Two hundred passengers were aboard an NJ Transit train when it hit a woman in Matawan on the North Jersey Coast Line just before midnight Monday, said agency spokesman Dan Stessel.
A train was sent to pick up the stranded passengers while the incident was being investigated, and the passengers continued south, Stessel said.
Then, around 2 a.m., that train struck and killed a man in Bradley Beach. Stessel said the crew on the train did not know that they had hit someone until they stopped in Spring Lake, which is about four miles away.
Authorities were investigating the incidents. NJ Transit said there were no significant delays for morning commuters. The North Jersey Coast Line runs between Newark and Bay Head, about 16 miles south of Asbury Park