Why I Got Home Half an Hour Late Today

A 57-year-old Elmwood Park bicyclist was killed Tuesday after being struck by a midday New Jersey Transit train, police said.
The unidentified victim was crossing the tracks at Midland Avenue and Erie Street when the commuter train slammed into his rear bicycle tire around 12:30 p.m. (my train would have passed this spot at around 1:00), said Police Chief Don Ingrasselino.
The man, whom Ingrasselino said was initially unconscious but breathing, was taken to the Hackensack University Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
The train, which was headed from Hoboken to Suffern, N.Y., wasn't carrying any passengers, said NJ Transit spokesman Penny Bassett Hackett.