Hoboken Police Officer Headed To Emergency Call Injured In Crash

A Hoboken police officer was hospitalized with injuries that responders said weren’t life-threatening after a sedan struck her patrol SUV Friday afternoon.

Adams Street, Hoboken
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE*

Jerry DeMarco

01/10/2020 4:28 p.m.

The BMW struck the driver’s side door on a residential stretch of Adams Street between 1st and Newark streets around 3:30 p.m.

Officer Cynthia Rivera, who was taken by ambulance to Hoboken University Medical Center, was headed to an emergency call of a dispute in progress when the crash occurred, police said.

Her SUV was driven from the scene. The BMW was towed.

The other driver didn't appear injured.

Boyd A. Loving took the photo and contributed to this report.

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