70-year-old hit by bus off critical list
Thursday, June 01, 2006

A 70-year-old woman was improving last night, a day after she was hit by a school bus while crossing Kennedy Boulevard in Jersey City, hospital officials said.

Julia Fagan, a Duncan Avenue resident, is in fair condition at the Jersey City Medical Center, a nursing supervisor said. On the day of the accident, she was in critical condition with head and leg injuries.

Fagan was hit Tuesday by a yellow school bus as she crossed the Boulevard at Jewett Avenue. Witnesses said she was trapped under the bus for several agonizing minutes.

The bikes.... they weren't choppers. Like those sporty bikes. They looked like... shall I say... expensive!

I was wondering who the poor sould the bought it was, thanks for the link.

It was quite an impressive display of bikes coming down Monmouth last night, glad I was there to see it.

Dozens rally at spot where biker was killed
Dozens of bikers rallied tonight at the corner of Kennedy Boulevard and Jewett Avenue in Jersey City to observe the spot where fellow motorcyclist Nelson Lopez was killed in an accident Friday morning.

Lopez, 22, of Jersey City, was killed when his Suzuki bike collided with a Jeep wagon at the intersection. A Puerto Rican native, he had recently moved to Jersey City from the Bronx.

The group, which began arriving at 7 o'clock, then drove to Michalski Funeral Home on Monmouth Street in Jersey City for the viewing. A Mass will be held tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. at St. Anthony’s Church, Jersey City.

A 70-year-old woman was hit by a school bus at the same location today. She is in critical condition at the Jersey City Medical Center for head and leg injuries, police said.

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Woman run over by school bus
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
By CARLY BALDWIN
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A 70-year-old woman was run over by a school bus yesterday afternoon as she attempted to cross Kennedy Boulevard just north of Lincoln Park in Jersey City, police said.

Julia Fagan, a Duncan Avenue resident, was trapped under the short yellow bus at the intersection with Jewett Avenue for several agonizing minutes until rescuers were able to lift it off her using an air inflation device, police said.

She was in critical condition last night at the Jersey City Medical Center, Police Sgt. Edgar Martinez said.

The Hudson County Transport bus driver, Dorka E. Herrera, 34, of Highland Avenue, told police she was heading west on Jewett Avenue in the empty school bus to go to A. Harry Moore School at 1:40 p.m. when she looked in her side mirror and saw Fagan trapped under the rear wheels, Martinez said.

Fagan endured massive head trauma and significant leg injuries, police said. Witnesses told police the woman appeared to be walking home after buying groceries from a corner deli.

Herrera has not been charged with anything related to the accident, but police are recreating the incident as part of their investigation, Martinez said.

Just four days earlier, another gruesome accident at the same intersection claimed the life of a motorcyclist. Nelson Lopez, 22, of Jersey City, was killed almost instantly Friday morning after his Suzuki motorcycle collided with a Jeep wagon, police said.