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UPDATE: NJIT Student Killed by NJ Transit Construction Vehicle on McCarter Highway in Newark

Newark

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II and Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose, III have announced that authorities are investigating an incident in which a bicyclist was killed in a collision with an excavation vehicle being operated by NJ Transit in Newark on Wednesday evening.

Authorities say shortly after 8:30 pm, Newark police officers were dispatched to area of McCarter Highway and Gouverneur Street on a report of a motor vehicle collision.

According to police arriving units determined that the construction vehicle was travelling north on McCarter Highway when it collided with the bicycle.

Police say the operator of the bicycle was rushed to University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:10 pm.

Authorities identified the bicyclist as Mr. Kevin Milfort-Sanchez, 20 of Paterson, who was a student at NJIT in Newark.

The driver of the construction vehicle remained in the area of the collision scene.

This incident is being investigated by detectives from the Prosecutor’s Crime Scene Investigations Bureau and the Newark and NJ Transit Police Departments. No charges have been filed at this time and the investigation is continuing

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