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Off-Duty EMT Revives Driver In PIP Fort Lee Crash, See His Dashcam Footage Off-Duty EMT Revives Driver In PIP Fort Lee Crash, See His Dashcam Footage
Off-Duty EMT Revives Driver In PIP Fort Lee Crash, See His Dashcam Footage A serious crash closed a stretch of the Palisades Interstate Parkway Thursday afternoon, Jan. 16. Witnesses say that the driver was trying to make a U-turn when they were struck near Exit 1 in Fort Lee just after 3 p.m.  Off-duty EMT Geoff Fallows was headed northbound when he spotted the crash in the shoulder of the southbound lanes, he tells Daily Voice.  With an injured knee, Fallows — who was the Little Ferry EMS captain for 16 years — says he hobbled across the highway, where another gentleman was performing compressions on the driver.  Hatzolah arrived with equipment …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Wrong-Way Driver Killed, Two Teens Seriously Injured On Route 304: Police (UPDATE) Wrong-Way Driver Killed, Two Teens Seriously Injured On Route 304: Police (UPDATE)
Wrong-Way Driver Killed, Two Teens Seriously Injured On Route 304: Police (Update) A head-on collision caused by a wrong-way driver on Route 304 in New City left one man dead and two teenagers seriously injured on Monday, Dec. 23, Clarkstown Police reported. At approximately 9:15 p.m., officers responded to the scene near the intersection of Route 304 and Second Street. Preliminary investigations revealed that a 35-year-old man from Ohio, driving a 2010 black Hyundai sedan, was traveling northbound in the southbound lanes when he collided head-on with a 2013 silver BMW. The BMW was occupied by an 18-year-old male driver and a 16-year-old female passenger, police said. …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Car Of Speeding Driver Crushed By 2 Tractor-Trailers On I-87 At NY/NJ State Line: Police Car Of Speeding Driver Crushed By 2 Tractor-Trailers On I-87 At NY/NJ State Line: Police
Car Of Speeding Driver Crushed By 2 Tractor-Trailers On I-87 At NY/NJ State Line: Police A speeding driver escaped serious injury, but not traffic citations, after police say he caused a crash involving two tractor-trailers Tuesday morning, Dec. 3 on I-87 in Rockland County. Joseph T. Bonomi of Washingtonville, was cited for speeding and moving from the lane unsafely, and treated at Westchester Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries following the crash in the southbound lanes in Hillburn, State Police said. The collision occurred in the southbound lanes of the New York State Thruway near Exit 15A in Hillburn. Photos shared by The Monsey Scoop show the car …

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by Kathy Reakes & Cecilia Levine
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PIP FATAL: SUV Crash On NJ Side Kills Rockland Driver, 61 PIP FATAL: SUV Crash On NJ Side Kills Rockland Driver, 61
PIP Fatal: SUV Crash On NJ Side Kills Rockland Driver, 61 UPDATE: A driver from Rockland County died after his SUV slammed into a tree Tuesday afternoon on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Tenafly. Tenafly firefighters extricated Aron Yishai Unger, 61, of Spring Valley following the single-vehicle crash between Exits 1 and 2 of the southbound Parkway at 1:45 p.m., Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Lt. Raymond E. Walter said. Members of Bergen Hatzalah conducted CPR while rushing the driver to the hospital after a medical chopper was summoned and then canceled. Unger was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center a short tim…

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by Jerry DeMarco