The New Jersey Transit operator who was killed in a crash in October tried to stop the train before it struck a tree on the tracks, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed in a preliminary report on Thursday,

The NTSB found that the train had been traveling at 64 mph through a curve in dark conditions as it approached the tree. Haley, the NTSB said, activated the train’s track brakes

A tree branch that penetrated the cab windshield struck and killed the operator of a train on NJ Transit’s light rail River Line on Oct. 14, the National Transportation Safety Board said in its preliminary investigation report released today.

A preliminary report found that the train operator activated the track brakes in an attempt to slow down the train moments before the deadly impact.

Stuck in the dark, hundreds of people were crammed aboard the 7:20 p.m. New Jersey Transit train to Trenton on July 31, as it sat in the tunnel beneath the Hudson River. They just wanted to get back to their homes in the suburbs,

NJ Transit commuters may have already seen the agency's new customer advocate riding trains and buses and he outline how he plans to meet riders for recommendations to improve service.

An NJ Transit train struck a car on the tracks Monday morning in North Jersey, killing the motorist. The victim, identified only as an adult male, was driving on Ryerson Rd. in Lincoln Park, NJ Transit said in a statement. He was struck by a Montclair-Boonton Line train traveling eastbound toward Hoboken.