Elderly driver strikes three in Bergen park in Woodcliff Lake

UPDATE: Three pedestrians were struck, none of them seriously injured, after an elderly man out with his wife in Wood Dale County Park in Woodcliff Lake shifted his van into the wrong gear, authorities told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

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Jerry DeMarco

11/02/2011 10:22 p.m.

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Three people were taken to the Pascack Valley emergency clinic and two to Hackensack University Medical Center, county Police Chief Brian Higgins told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

“Fortunately, it wasn’t as bad as first thought,” Higgins said.

The man was out with his wife at the park when he shifted his van into gear the wrong way, the chief said.

The vehicle immediately hit a pedestrian, then swerved and hit another before smashing into a mini-van that slammed into someone else. The three pedestrians, the driver of the van and the original driver were all whisked from the park by ambulance.

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