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- YOU READ IT HERE FIRST: A Lodi math teacher and athletic coach was drunk when his car rammed into a Bergen County Police Department SUV on Route 46 in Lodi overnight, critically injuring Officer Daniel Breslin, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this morning. READ MORE ….
The driver of the vehicle that slammed into 39-year-old Daniel Breslin’s SUV at high speed “fled on foot but was apprehended a short time later by Lodi PD,” Bergen County Police Capt. James Mullin said early this morning.
Breslin “received serious injuries and was entrapped in his patrol vehicle,” Mullin said. “After being extricated from the vehicle he was transported to HUMC.”
The car nearly t-boned the police cruiser, hitting it at a high rate of speed, emergency responders at the scene told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
“The rear driver’s side door was in the middle of the seat,” one said.
Hasbrouck Heights and Garfield rescue squads responded, along with Lodi police, firefighters and EMS, Bergen County Police, NJSP and other area departments.
The highway was temporarily closed in both directions near the scene in front of the Brake-O-Rama Goodyear, along a strip of auto parts stores on both sides of the busy highway.
Breslin, a married father of two, is a former South Hackensack Police Officer who was laid off for budgetary reasons and hired by the BCPD in 2010.
The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Fatal Accident Investigation Unit is handling the case, Mullin said.
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