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Driver Cutting Across Route 46 Broadsided By Private Bus: Police Driver Cutting Across Route 46 Broadsided By Private Bus: Police
Driver Cutting Across Route 46 Broadsided By Private Bus: Police An Ohio driver putting his own twist on the Jersey Slide found out the hard way what it'll get you. A 22-year-old Kia Soul operator pulled out of the Plato's Closet parking lot at 137 Route 46 West and crossed both westbound lanes of the highway to try to enter an emergency vehicle U-turn cut to try to get over to Route 46 East in Fairfield around 7:30 p.m., Fairfield Police Officer Stacy Chiarolanza said. The Kia was then hit broadside on the driver’s side by the bus, as the bus driver had no time to avoid the crash, police said. Photos from the scene show the bus was a private bus ow…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Pedestrian, 64, Struck, Seriously Injured By NJ Transit Bus In New Milford Pedestrian, 64, Struck, Seriously Injured By NJ Transit Bus In New Milford
Pedestrian, 64, Struck, Seriously Injured By NJ Transit Bus In New Milford A 64-year-old New Milford man was seriously injured when he was struck by a commuter bus shortly before dawn Wednesday, authorities confirmed. The victim was struck at the intersection of Madison Avenue and River Road at 6:22 a.m. Feb. 21, New Milford Police Chief Brian Clancy said. Holy Name EMS and paramedics tended to the pedestrian, who was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, the chief said. The intersection remained closed for three hours until shortly before 9:30 a.m. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Fatal Accident Investigations Unit and members of the county sheriff's Bur…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Pedestrian From Fort Lee, 56, Struck, Killed By Commuter Bus Near GWB (UPDATED) Pedestrian From Fort Lee, 56, Struck, Killed By Commuter Bus Near GWB (UPDATED)
Pedestrian From Fort Lee, 56, Struck, Killed By Commuter Bus Near GWB (Updated) A Fort Lee resident was struck and killed by a commuter bus while crossing a busy intersection near the George Washington Bridge before dawn Wednesday. The NJ Transit bus was headed north on Lemoine Avenue when the driver made a left turn onto Bruce Reynolds Boulevard (formerly Bridge Plaza South) and struck the 56-year-old pedestrian at 5:05 a.m. Jan. 10, Fort Lee Deputy Police Chief Edward Young said. Port Authority and Fort Lee police officers quickly responded and conducted CPR, the deputy chief said. The pedestrian was pronounced dead a short time later at Englewood Hospital and …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Bus Downs Utility Pole In Paramus Bus Downs Utility Pole In Paramus
Bus Downs Utility Pole In Paramus A bus driver with no passengers avoided injury after toppling a utility pole in Paramus. The NJ Transit bus clipped the pole on East Ridgewood Avenue adjacent to the New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home and Bergen New Bridge Medical Center shortly before 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18. Paramus police and firefighters responded, along with a PSE&G crew that handled the necessary repairs. The Coach USA bus was driveable. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this article. The utility pole got the worst of it on East Ridgewood Avenue in Paramus.Boyd A. Loving

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Mini School Bus, SUV Collide In Glen Rock Mini School Bus, SUV Collide In Glen Rock
Mini School Bus, SUV Collide In Glen Rock Two special needs students were taken to the hospital after a mini school bus and an SUV collided in Glen Rock. An aide and the driver of the Honda Pilot were treated at the scene by members of the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps after the crash at the confluence of Park, Highwood and Maple avenues at 8:19 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. A 71-year-old Paterson man who was driving the children and aide to Bergen County Special Services in Paramus in the Hackensack-based Pro-Trans School Transportation bus failed to yield at the intersection of Highwood…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Driver Critically Injured In Crash With Commuter Bus At Wood-Ridge/South Hackensack Border Driver Critically Injured In Crash With Commuter Bus At Wood-Ridge/South Hackensack Border
Driver Critically Injured In Crash With Commuter Bus At Wood-Ridge/South Hackensack Border A driver was critically injured in a multi-vehicle crash involving a commuter bus at the border of Wood-Ridge and South Hackensack. The driver apparently lost control of her 2010 Honda Accord, which hit another vehicle and then the NJ Transit bus No. 160 at Saddle River Avenue and South Main Street -- outside the Blush nightclub and across from St. Michael's Cemetery -- shortly before 8 p.m. Friday. The Wallington Emergency Squad took her to Hackensack University Medical Center. The bus driver wasn't injured, responders said. The NJ Transit bus driver was OK, responders said.James Woo…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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City 'Accordion' Bus Dangles From Cross Bronx Overpass City 'Accordion' Bus Dangles From Cross Bronx Overpass
City 'Accordion' Bus Dangles From Cross Bronx Overpass The front of a tandem bus careened off the Cross Bronx Expressway and dangled onto a Major Deegan Expressway ramp late Thursday, critically injuring the driver, authorities said. Eight passengers were hospitalized with what the New York Fire Department said weren’t life-threatening injuries after the front of the MTA accordion bus smashed into the ramp below, leaving it vertical, shortly after 11 p.m. The rest of the bus remained on the highway near University Avenue, with its design likely preventing a greater catastrophe. Police initially said the driver either "failed to navigate" a tu…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Woman Struck By Bus On Route 120 In Carlstadt Woman Struck By Bus On Route 120 In Carlstadt
Woman Struck By Bus On Route 120 In Carlstadt A woman staying at a local hotel was struck by a commuter bus near the Meadowlands Tuesday night. The 36-year-old victim wasn't in a crosswalk when an NJ Transit bus hit her in the middle lane of Route 120 (Paterson Plank Road) outside the Holiday Inn Express in Carlstadt shortly after 7:30 p.m., Detective Sgt. John Cleary said. She was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with serious and possibly life-threatening injuries, Cleary said. The Bergen County Prosecutor's Fatal Accident Investigations Unit and NJ Transit police were notified. The Bergen County Sheriff's Bureau of Crim…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: 12 Hospitalized After Lincoln Tunnel-Bound Buses Crash UPDATE: 12 Hospitalized After Lincoln Tunnel-Bound Buses Crash
Update: 12 Hospitalized After Lincoln Tunnel-Bound Buses Crash A dozen people were hospitalized Monday morning after a New Jersey Transit bus rear-ended another, sending it into a guardrail, on their way to the Lincoln Tunnel. Port Authority Tunnel and Bridge agents had to cut off the doors and spread the stairwell to get to those injured on the bus that veered off the road and struck the guardrail on the ramp from the northbound New Jersey Turnpike to eastbound Route 495 in Secaucus around 7:15 a.m. Ten passengers and both drivers were hospitalized, responders said. Four of those injured were placed in collars and on backboards after complaining of b…

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by Jerry DeMarco