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Two Bail As Garbage Truck Loses Brakes, Barrels Into NJ Park, Misses Brook Two Bail As Garbage Truck Loses Brakes, Barrels Into NJ Park, Misses Brook
Two Bail As Garbage Truck Loses Brakes, Barrels Into NJ Park, Misses Brook Two passengers jumped from a speeding garbage truck as it barreled down a steep hill into a Passaic County park and stopped just short of plunging into a brook after losing its brakes. The driver and both occupants were hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening after the Gaeta garbage truck out of Paterson sped down Brockhuizen Lane into Goffle Brook Park around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 26. The truck was inches from going airborne into the brook when it hit some bushes at the top of a retaining wall before coming to a stop. Inches from complete disaster.Boyd …

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by Jerry DeMarco