Received an email with the following comment and a link to the newspaper article below.
"Evidently the truck driver must have been from out-of-state since the roads around the grade crossing are not driver friendly for tractor trailers."
NJ Transit train strikes tractor-trailer, one injured
By Tomas Dinges/The Star-Ledger
on November 12, 2012 at 11:40 PM, updated November 13, 2012 at 7:00 AM
BRANCHBURG — A New Jersey Transit train empty of passengers struck a tractor-trailer on the tracks near a Somerset County station Monday night, an official said.
About 7:45 p.m. the train was heading back to the railyards along the Raritan Valley Line when it struck the tractor-trailer at a road crossing near the North Branch station in Branchburg, an NJ Transit spokesman said.
A conductor on the train was taken to a nearby hospital for non-life threatening injuries, said spokesman John Durso. Remaining members of the skeleton crew was not hurt, he said.
It was unclear why the tractor-trailer was on the track, or if there was anyone inside the trailer when it was struck, Durso said.
Commuters were being bused between the High Bridge and Raritan stations while the rail line was shut down, he said. By midnight, the tracks were clear, officials said.