Following article is from the New York Daily News.
Police Officer inside car struck by NJ Transit train released from hospital
Service was temporarily suspended on the Raritan Valley
line after a train collided with a police cruiser in Bridgewater, N.J.
No passengers were on board, but a police officer was taken to the hospital
with injuries that were non-life-threatening.
By Erik Ortiz AND Carol Kuruvilla / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Thursday, November 7, 2013, 2:08 PM
Updated: Thursday, November 7, 2013, 7:12 PM
A police officer injured when a NJ Transit train crashed into his squad car
Thursday morning has been released from the hospital, officials confirmed.
The officer belonging to the Bridgewater Township Police Department in New
Jersey suffered non-life-threatening injuries. A transit spokesman declined to
identify the officer or detail his injuries.
The accident happened around 11:50 a.m. as the train, empty of passengers,
traveled through the Polhemus Ave. crossing in Bridgewater.
The officer was already in the area to investigate reports of trespassers on
the tracks. At the time of the accident, the cruiser was along the train’s
“right of way,” meaning it was “adjacent to the tracks,” New Jersey Transit
spokesman John Durso Jr. told the Daily News.
The left side of the car bore the brunt of the train’s impact, sustaining
significant damage.
The police officer inside the car was rushed to a Robert Wood Johnson
University Hospital.
The train was en route to the Raritan Yard when the crash occurred. None of
the crew members sustained injuries.
NJ Transit had to cancel the 11:49 a.m. train from Bound Brook.
As of 2 p.m., train service was operating on or close to schedule, Durso
said.