Driver OK After Sedan Careens Off Garden State Parkway Into Townhouse

A driver was hospitalized after her sedan careened off the Garden State Parkway and into a townhouse on Wednesday, leaving a trail of damage the length of a football field in its wake, State Police said.

Brookside Towing removes the Mercury sedan outside the Clifton townhouse off the Garden State Parkway.
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Brookside Towing lifted the sedan from below.
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Did the fence brace its fall?
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Jerry DeMarco

01/12/2022 2:09 p.m.

A chain-link fence may have braced the 84-year-old Bloomfield motorist's Mercury as it fell over a wall and into the back of the George Russell Way development at milepost 155.6 in Clifton.

The driver was taken to St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening, NJSP Sgt. Alejandro Goez said.

Brookside Towing hoisted the sedan from the street following the crash.

The Merc barreled up an embankment, then hit and fence and clipped a garage on Colfax Avenue before shooting across Colfax Avenue, where it hit the curb and then the fence atop a concrete retaining before dropping against the building nearly 100 yards from where it left the Parkway.

Local police, firefighters and EMS also responded.

State Police were investigating.

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