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Authorities are investigating why a car that was hit by a New Jersey Transit train, killing a man, got on the tracks. The fiery crash occurred Thursday morning just west of the Lincoln Boulevard crossing

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1 dead after NJ Transit train hits vehicle in Emerson

Authorities are investigating why a car that was hit by a New Jersey Transit train, killing a man, got on the tracks. The fiery crash occurred Thursday morning just west of the Lincoln Boulevard crossing

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