A train operator is dead and nearly two dozen passengers injured after a New Jersey Transit commuter train struck a chunk of a tree on the tracks

A passenger describes the scary moments when a tree came through the windshield of a New Jersey Transit train.

Could anything have been done to prevent this week’s fatal crash on the River Line, which killed a 20-year veteran train operator who hit a downed tree?

New Jersey Transit Train Hits Tree on Track, Killing Train Operator Nearly two dozen people were injured when the light rail train collided with a chunk of tree in South Jersey. Advertisement 1:08 10:

One person is dead and 23 others are injured after a train struck a tree that had fallen on tracks in New Jersey Monday morning.

A train operator is dead and 23 other people are injured after a New Jersey Transit train hit a tree early Monday, officials say.

A man was fatally struck by an NJ Transit train on the evening of Tuesday, Oct. 15 in Rahway, authorities said. The man was struck at 7:45 p.m. by Northeast Corridor train 3963, which had departed Penn Station New York at 7:12 p.