1 dead after NJ Transit train hits vehicle in Emerson

The vehicle then caught fire, she said.

TARIQ ZEHAWI/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Emergency personnel on the scene of a deadly accident involving a automotive and a practice on the railroad tracks in Emerson.

Authorities say the man killed in a fiery crash between a auto and a New Jersey Transit train is an 87-year-old Pennsylvania resident. There is a wall on the shopping center side and woods on the other side.

NJ Transit officials say that there were 110 passengers on the train at the time of the collision.

Authorities were trying to identify a motorist in his late 80s who was killed by an NJ Transit train after driving along the tracks in Emerson around 5:30 this morning.

The Pascack Valley Line extends into Rockland, with Metro-North stations in Spring Valley, Nanuet and Pearl River.

It has been repaired, although support was stopped earlier Friday day about the Gladstone Point due to a downed power-line.