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Tipped Load Of Frozen Food Closes Flyover At NJ/NY Border For Hours, Second Crash Of Morning
UPDATE: An early-morning tractor-trailer crash kept a notorious stretch of highway at the New Jersey/New York border closed well into the afternoon on Tuesday. The driver told police that his load of frozen food shifted and the rig tipped on the flyover where Routes 17 and 287 meet in Mahwah around 7:30 a.m. He was uninjured. The flyover connection has been a constant nightmare and headache for motorists as well as emergency responders for years. This time, the road remained closed at that point into the late afternoon as boxes of tater tots, mozzarella sticks and stuffed jalapenos were o…
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Anti-Semite Refused Medical Care Because EMTs Were Jewish: Report (
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A video showing a Lakewood resident refusing to accept medical care because the volunteer first responders from Lakewood EMS were Jewish, Yeshiva World News reports. "She don't want to talk to you guys," the woman's husband is heard telling the EMTs. "No judio." "If she doesn't feel well you have to get medical help," an EMT can be heard saying. Paramedics were then called to help the women, but they also were Jewish, the outlet said. Eventually, the woman was treated and taken to an area hospital by the Jewish first responders — "but not before she threw a fit," YWN says. Earlier …
Police & Fire
SUV Hits Parked Car, Slams Into Utility Pole In Glen Rock
An SUV hit an occupied parked car before slamming head-on into a utility pole Monday in Glen Rock. Neither the Honda Pilot nor the driver who was making a cellphone call in a sedan parked in the 500 block of Harristown Road was injured in the afternoon crash, responders said. A flatbed tow truck removed the wrecked SUV, while the sedan was driven from the scene. Borough police responded. The SUV hit a parked car and then the pole on Harristown Road in Glen Rock.Boyd A. Loving Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this account.
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: Authorities Charge South Hackensack Driver Who Crashed Through Bergen Jail Entrance
UPDATE: Authorities filed charges against a South Hackensack driver who crashed a sedan through the employee entrance of the Bergen County Jail on Friday. Troy H. McDonald, 51, remained in police custody overnight at New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus (formerly Bergen Regional) with injuries that Bergen County Sheriff Anthony Cureton said weren't life-threatening. Authorities charged him with causing widespread damage, burglary and criminal mischief "based on statements that were made," Cureton told Daily Voice. Responders helped get McDonald out of his Acura after it smashed through …
Police & Fire
Bergen County Worker, 75, Hospitalized After Heart Attack At Darlington Park
A 75-year-old Bergen County employee who had a heart attack behind the wheel of a county vehicle Thursday afternoon at Darlington County Park in Mahwah was later revived at the hospital, authorities said. The New Milford man was driving a pickup truck that "went off the path and into some brush" on a road along the golf course just after 3 p.m., township police Capt. Stuart Blank said. Responders said they conducted CPR, administered several shocks from a defibrillator and continued to do so while taking the victim to Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern. The victim's daughter and …
Police & Fire
Car Slams Into Others On First Day Of Wyckoff YMCA Summer Camp
No one was injured when a compact car driven by a 77-year-old Fair Lawn man careened out of control in the busy Wyckoff YMCA parking lot Monday -- on a busy first day of summer camp, authorities said. Emergency responders rushed to what originally was a call of a car hitting the building, Lt. Joseph Soto said. “A lot of people were dropping off their kids at the time,” Soto said. "There was a great deal of concern.” The driver told police his brakes went as he tried to park, sending his Suzuki Aerio onto a berm between the lot and nearby train tracks, the lieutenant said. “Gravity th…
Police & Fire
Scared Straight? Hackensack Prom Season Off To Serious Start
Students gathered outside of Hackensack High School early Tuesday for the annual demonstration by emergency responders of what could happen in a deadly prom-time crash -- only this year there was a twist. "The message we want kids to get is: Besides impaired driving, distracted driving is also dangerous," said Iris Koonan, a student assistance counselor. Each year, city firefighters, police, EMS and other responders show the students the consequences of drunk driving. Tuesday morning's "crash," however, occurred when youngsters on the way to their prom looked up to take…
Police & Fire
Ho-Ho-Kus Homes Evacuated: Downed Utility Line Sparks, Blows Manhole Cover
HO-HO-KUS, N.J. – Video shows a downed power line in Ho-Ho-Kus that ignited a tree limb, eventually sparking an underground explosion that popped two manhole covers – nearly hitting emergency responders. ABC7 Eyewitness News video shows responders arriving at the Gilbert Road fire, which broke out just before 10 a.m. Thursday when a primary service line set the limb ablaze, cracking it off the tree. The falling limb yanked several power lines onto the roadway and on top of a nearby vehicle, Fire Lt. Dane Michael Policastro said Friday. “The high tension lines began arcing in the roadway an…
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