Two Persons Hurt

In Train-Car Crash

Byram--Two persons were injured shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday when the car they were riding in was struck by a three-car diesel passenger train at White Hall road Erie Lackawanna Railroad crossing at Panther Lake.

The injured were Everett K. Swayze, 47 of 22 Polk avenue, Dover, the driver of the car and Peggy Pearce, 23 of RD, Newton, a passenger in the auto. Police say Swayze refused medical treatment, while the woman passenger was treated at Newton Memorial Hospital for severe abrasions and contusions of the left hand, wrist, arm and shoulder and abrasions and contusions of the left knee.

She was released from the hospital after treatment. Both of the injured persons were transported to the hospital by the Lakeland Emergency Squad.

Trooper Peter Kusant, who investigated the crash, reported the car was crossing the tracks when it was hit by the train. Police identified the engineer of the train as Gerald Powers, 66 of Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City. There were no passengers on the train, which was traveling south from Newton to Hoboken.