Injured Passengers Intend To Sue NJ Transit For Negligence

When Sheldon Kest climbed out a window of the NJ Transit train that hurtled into Hoboken Terminal on Sept. 29, his right middle finger was partly amputated and his face was covered in blood. On Monday, a week and a half after the accident, Kest became one of the first passengers from the train to file notice that he plans to sue NJ Transit over the crash. “I need to know, why did this happen?” Kest, a 66-year-old Tenafly resident, said Tuesday. “How did it happen? And who should be held responsible so it never happens again?”