Off-duty Fort Lee police officer ejected in head-on Rockleigh rollover crash

UPDATE: An off-duty Fort Lee police officer was responsive and complaining of head, back and arm injuries after he was ejected from his Jeep when it collided head-on with a sedan driven by a 65-year-old Harrington Park man outside the Rockleigh Golf Course this morning, authorities said.

Photo Credit: *Courtesy NORTHVALE POLICE CHIEF WILLIAM ESSMAN*

Jerry DeMarco

05/22/2015 3:33 p.m.

Laki Pothos was flown by AirMed One to Hackensack University Medical Center while the other driver was taken to the hospital by ambulance after the 9:44 a.m. crash on Paris Avenue.

The driver of the Nissan Altima “suffered facial lacerations and was complaining of pain” after firefighters extricated him, Northvale Police Chief William Essman said this afternoon.

The westbound newer-model Jeep Wrangler rolled, ejecting the 32-year-old officer, a two-year veteran of the Fort Lee depatment.

A landing zone was set up at Hogan Field.

The Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Fatal Accident Investigation Unit and the Bergen County Sheriff’s BCI responded along with various police, firefighters and paramedics from Northvale, Norwood and Rockleigh.

PHOTOS: Courtesy NORTHVALE POLICE CHIEF WILLIAM ESSMAN

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