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Route 202
Police & Fire
Update
: Tractor-Trailer Tips Over Median, Dumps Trash Across Treacherous Stretch Of Route 17
A tractor-trailer hauling garbage tipped over a median on Route 17 Friday morning at what police and commuters say has become an all-too-frequent site for such crashes near the New York State border. The driver was initially entrapped but climbed out on his own after his northbound rig went over the divider near the Route 202 exit at Mountainside Avenue at 8:43 a.m. Sept. 8, Mahwah Police Chief Timothy O'Hara said. He had minor injuries and refused medical attention, the chief said. Traffic quickly thickened on both sides of Route 17. All lanes were very briefly closed while the first r…
Police & Fire
Photos Show Responders Lifting Tractor Trailer Driver 75 Feet To Roadway After Route 202 Crash
The driver of a tractor trailer was flown to the hospital after apparently being cut off by a vehicle then crashing on Route 202 last week, responders said. The northbound passenger car apparently pulled in front of the tractor trailer, which veered to the right side of the roadway in an attempt to avoid collision near Countryside Funeral Home in Readington Township, around 6:40 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 17 , the Flemington-Raritan First Aid and Rescue Squad said. Serious Motor Vehicle Crash - U.S. Route 202 Readington Township - 17 February 2023 Posted by Flemington-Raritan First Aid and R…
Police & Fire
Deadly Crash Reported In Hunterdon County, State Police Say (
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One person was killed in a crash on Route 202 in Hunterdon County, state police said. A vehicle went off the road and overturned on Route 202 north near Wertsville Road in East Amwell Township around 2:05 p.m. on Tuesday, August 2, NJSP Sgt. Alejandro Goez told DailyVoice.com. One person was confirmed dead following the crash, Goez said. The ramp from 31 to 202 was temporarily shut down for the investigation. Additional details were not immediately released.
Police & Fire
Football, Lax Player Struck By Car On Route 202 Remains Critical
A 15-year-old football and lacrosse player remains critical after being struck by a car on Route 202 early Memorial Day, those who know him say. Jerry Walther was identified as the victim flown to Morristown Medical Center after being struck at Reaville Road around 2:25 a.m., according to a GoFundMe page raising money for his family. Nearly $6,900 had been raised as of Tuesday, May 31. "Jerry 'Jer Bear' is an awesome kid who has touched so many lives," the page reads. "If you know him from youth football, high school football and/or lacrosse, you already know he is tough. Please …
Police & Fire
15-Year-Old Boy Airlifted In Route 202 Crash
A 15-year-old boy was flown to the hospital after being struck by a car on Route 202, authorities said. He was struck around 2:25 a.m. at the Reaville Road intersection in Flemington, the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office said. He was taken to Morristown Medical Center for treatment and the crash remains under investigation.
News
West Milford Man Nabbed In Rockland With Loaded Gun, Meth, Sheriff Says
A Passaic County driver was carrying a loaded gun and more than two ounces of crystal meth when a sheriff’s officer stopped him in Rockland, authorities said. Ethan A. Iglesias, 22, of Stowaway Road was arrested following a traffic stop on Route 202 in the town of Haverstraw at 3:45 a.m. Thursday, March 31, Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco said. A local judge ordered that Iglesias remain held in the Rockland County Correctional Facility in New City pending a detention hearing on Monday, April 4, the sheriff said. He's charged with drug and weapons offenses.
News
Oakland Sergeant Nabs Fast-Buck Paterson Pair Siphoning Cooking Grease From Local Eateries
A pair of grease bandits had just stolen 200 gallons of used cooking oil when an Oakland police sergeant stopped their commercial van, authorities said. Inside, he found a large storage tank filled with grease. Some thieves steal copper wire for black-market sale, ordinarily for drug money. Some hit no-questions-asked pawn shops after swiping jewelry or electronics. For others, grease is the word. What makes it so valuable? Biodiesel. Each year, an estimated billion and a half pounds of used oil is rendered into renewable fuel -- in the process releasing about 85% fewer carbon emissio…
News
Worker Seriously Injured In Explosion At Machining Plant Off Route 287
A medical chopper was summoned after an employee was severely burned in an explosion Thursday morning at a machining company in Oakland. Responders were called to FIMS Manufacturing on Allerman Road -- just off the Route 202 ramp to Route 287 -- around 10:45 a.m. Police, firefighers and EMS responded. The nearly 42,000-square-foot, third-generation family machine shop was established in 1962. Among other services, FIMS makes firearms and does heavy work for the military, as well as aerospace machining, the company says on its website. CHECK BACK FOR MORE DETAILS ****** ALSO SEE: …
Traffic
Major NJ Highway Closing This Weekend For Repairs
Route 202 will be closed in both directions this weekend for drainage pipe replacement in Hunterdon County. Both southbound lanes and one right northbound lane will be closed approximately one mile north of ramp Route 29, from 7 p.m. Friday to 7 p.m. Sunday, New Jersey's transportation department said. Southbound traffic will get by in the southbound shoulder, while one right lane will be open for northbound traffic. Oversize loads wider than 8 feet and 6 inches will be prohibited from traveling on this section of the highway completely. If work is completed early, the road will reopen so…
Police & Fire
Update
: 'Bomb Carrying' Bergen, Rockland, Dutchess Bank Robber Stole $233,000, Feds Say
UPDATE: A 29-year-old Airmont man captured by a team of law enforcement agents on Tuesday robbed four banks in Bergen, Rockland and Dutchess counties of $233,000 in all, often by claiming to have a bomb and once by pointing what appeared to be a weapon, authorities said. Yosef Ziegler was taken into custody in Airmont early Tuesday by a team of federal agents and law enforcement officersfrom the jurisdictions where the banks were robbed -- among them, investigators from the FBI and Bergen County Prosecutor's Office. Ziegler held up the four banks in the two states over a 10-month period be…
Real Estate
Sold
! Mahwah's River Palm Terrace Has New Owners
Top-rated steakhouse River Palm Terrance in Mahwah has been sold, broker Barry Bielat of Bielat Santore & Company announced. The restaurant, located at the corner of Routes 17 and 202 in Mahwah, trinity of River Palm Steak Houses. The other locations are in Fair Lawn and Edgewater, New Jersey. New owners Patriot Gjonbalaj and Frank Gashi come with more than 30 years of career training and New York City experience. They intend on operating River Palm Terrace as a classic New York steak house and enhance the business through strategic and timely changes, the firm sai…
Traffic
Expect Delays: Palisades Interstate Parkway Lane Closures Scheduled
There will be partial and full lane closures on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Rockland County for several weeks as contracting crews get set to perform construction activities in the area. The New York State Department of Transportation has issued an alert warning that construction work in Haverstraw and Stony Point is expected to result in single lane closures and full lane closures on the parkway between exit 13 (Route 202) and exit 18 (Route 6), beginning on Monday, May 14. According to the NYSDOT, full closures of portions of the northbound side of the of the Parkway are expected …
Police & Fire
Mahwah Firefighters Move Indian Camp Propane Tanks To Protect Ramapo River
MAHWAH, N.J. -- Mahwah firefighters secured several propane tanks Saturday amid concerns that they'd float into the Ramapo River, which supplies water for millions of people in New Jersey and New York. Firefighters moved the tanks after being called to the Split Rock Sweetwater Prayer Camp, west of Route 202 in the Ramapo Mountains, where the recent rain and melted snow raised fears of serious flooding. The area is the first along the Ramapo River in Mahwah that floods -- and, some fear, could someday be washed out completely. The Ramapough Lenape Nation camp, on what is considered a sacre…
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