Long Island driver killed in tractor-trailer crash on shoulder of Route 287 in Mahwah

UPDATE: A tractor-trailer was stopped on the shoulder when it was rear-ended by a Subaru wagon on northbound Route 287 near Exit 65 in Mahwah, killing its driver, around 2:15 p.m., police at the scene confirmed this afternoon.

Jerry DeMarco

02/26/2015 7:40 p.m.

Valley Hospital paramedics pronounced the death after joining Mahwah and New Jersey State police at the scene, a little over a mile from Route 17, Mahwah Police Chief James Batelli told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

The center and right lane remained closed, with traffic crawling in the left lane, past rush hour.

Mahwah Rescue 1 was summoned just before 6:30 p.m. to remove 69-year-old Steve Faust of Woodmere from his 2011 Outback, authorities said.

PHOTO: Patrick LeStrange

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