Driver dies, passenger OK after Teaneck telephone pole crash

A 29-year-old Hackensack driver died moments after being cut from his car, while his 25-year-old passenger from Bergenfield walked away uninjured, in an apparent hydroplaning crash into a utility pole on New Bridge Road in Teaneck overnight.

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Jerry DeMarco

03/30/2014 9:09 p.m.

A source said the pair apparently had been at Applebee’s in Hackensack and just crossed the Teaneck border when the car went airborne and slammed into the telephone pole near River Road just after 1 a.m.

Teaneck police and firefighters responded.

The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Fatal Accident Unit was investigating.

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