Why is tghere no info. on this accident? 9/26/2018 no news briefs no t>v. No news paper reporting this. I understand that families want to be respected in such a trajedy but I think it is important to give some kind of a report .You don`t have to reveal names ,but when both rail and auto traffic is dirupted for hours you would think that some kind of story would be forth coming ? After all this is the information age Not fake news.
I found local several articles on-line.
Just guessing here, but it could be the local media is keeping it quiet so as not to give any other would-be suicides any ideas.
It’s sad and ironic, but several years back after an number of pedestrian strikes New Jersey Transit went on a public safety blitz to try and impress the public, kids especially, just how dangerous trains can be. It worked, accidental pedestrian strikes went down dramatically. Unfortunately, suicides-by-train went up.
Amost as if the suicidal said to themselves “Now WHY didn’t I think of that?”
You could be on to something here .It is the third suicide at this location in about 20 months . I thought it might be appropriate to publish this event to let the public be aware of this Maybe the T could illuminate this area or have rail cops local police make their presence know to try to discourage this from happening again
While such a presence may help discourage such actions at that point, those who are truly set on taking their own life will simply find another opportunity.
A few years ago, a young woman apparently took her own life by walking in front of a train in Michigan. That occurred just a short time after another, apparently accidental, death on the tracks a few miles away.
You just never know.
Easily Googled.
Found this
Ashland: Pedestrian killed by train near Fountain Street bridge
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It includes two photos of the area that are not copied here.
Incidents of this sort, whether a suicide or a grade-crossing accident, rarely get any coverage beyond the local news media. They just aren’t that newsworthy beyond the immediate area.
Quite true. New Jersey Transit trains usually hit a pedestrian at least once a month, most likely suicides, but the only reason I know about it here in Virginia is by reading the northern New Jersey newspapers on line.
Strictly out of curiosity about what’s going on “back home.”