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Sean Griffin, seen in the CLIFFVIEW PILOT photo being interviewed by a police officer following yesterday’s 3:50 p.m. crash on Bergen Boulevard, was released on a summons charging him with reckless assault by auto, among other offenses.
Authorities also charged him with giving false information about the cause of the crash to the responding officers.
ACCIDENT SCENE PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Michael LaFalce
Griffin was headed south in the BMW X5 when he “purposefully accelerated to a high rate of speed” and began passing other cars on the shoulder, Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said this afternoon.
At Bergen Boulevard’s intersection with Industrial Avenue, Griffin “veered hard to his left and slid across the southbound lane of travel directly into oncoming traffic in the northbound lanes,” the prosecutor said.
The BMW first struck a Mini Cooper driven by Jane Dorr in the northbound lane and then a Volkwagen Cabrio driven by Milorad Milan, forcing Door’s compact car into car parked outside a used car lot a short distance from the Point Diner.
Emergency responders cut Dorr from the vehicle before she was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with what Molinelil said were serious head and internal injuries and several broken bones.
She remained there in critical condition today, he said.
Milin was treated at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center and released.
Members of Molinelli’s Major Crimes Unit and Fairview police charged Griffin with reckless assault by auto, causing an injury while driving unlicensed and hindering his arrest by giving false information to police.
Officers also gave him summonses for reckless driving, speeding, being an unlicensed driver, improper passing and failing to maintain a lane.
Griffin is due in Fairview Municipal Court this coming Wednesday.
- MUGSHOT: Courtesy BERGEN COUNTY PROSECUTOR / PHOTOS: CLIFFVIEW PILOT Correspondent Michael LaFalce
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