Woman Hospitalized After Falling Onto Train Tracks In Bergen County: Police

GLEN ROCK, NJ — A woman who fell onto NJ Transit tracks on Thursday night was rescued and taken to the hospital, police said Friday.

The Glen Rock police and NJ Transit said in a joint press release Friday afternoon that police headed to the tracks near the Glen Rock Main Line station just before 6 p.m. Thursday.

They found a woman in the "gauge of the tracks," or between two tracks, suffering from a head injury, police said.

Officers John Tarantino and T.J. Graziani pulled the woman to safety and began first aid until emergency medical technicians arrived, they said.

Train traffic was temporarily stopped to remove the woman and investigate, police said.

NJ Transit police determined that the 76-year-old Waldwick woman was walking with a cane in a narrow space on the right-of-way between the rail and a fence. When a train passed, she lost her balance and fell onto the tracks, police said.

Police are still trying to determine if she was hit by the train, they said.

The woman was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center by the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps, police said. No further information is available.