Saturday, September 09, 2017

NJT RVL news: Woman falls asleep on train wakes up in a locked bilevel in Raritan

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A young woman bound for the Middletown NJ Transit station accidentally got on the wrong train Wednesday night — but it's when she fell asleep that her real nightmare began.
The girl, whose name was not made public, woke up after all the other passengers had gotten off and the train was parked for the night in a desolate rail yard in Raritan (NJ). Horrified, the girl said she screamed, but nobody heard her. The conductors had apparently locked the train up for the night, parked it and left. It was about 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday. "I literally just asleep on my train. There's no one on this train! Literally I was screaming at the top of my lungs for help. lmfao no one answered, the train was completely empty and shut down for the night," the girl wrote on Twitter. She took a video, posted it on Instagram and Twitter and called 911. NJ Transit tweeted back to her, asking if she was still locked on the train and what train number and line. But Raritan police got there first and rescued her. The girl said she was two hours from home, and Raritan police called her parents, who came and picked her up. Who's to blame for this? Depends who you ask. Raritan police told her it was her fault and she should have been more responsible, she said."The guy who checks tickets didn't even notice mine said Middletown NJ," she tweeted. "Honestly I probably wont take the train again, I'm pretty horrified."NJ Transit is investigating the incident. "It's extremely rare for this to happen," NJ Transit spokeswoman Nancy Snyder told NJ.com, which first reported the story. "It is the conductor's responsibility to check the train."