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New Law Requires NJ Drivers To Move Over For Disabled Vehicles
Gov. Phil Murphy has expanded New Jersey's "move over" law to protect drivers of broken-down vehicles on the side of Garden State roads. The new requirement says drivers must safely move into another lane when approaching a disabled vehicle using flashing hazard lights, road flares, or reflective triangles. Gov. Murphy signed the bill into law on Tuesday, Jan. 16. If oncoming drivers can't safely move into another lane, they must slow down below the speed limit and be prepared to stop. The new law adds to the existing requirement to move over or slow down for emergency crews, tow …
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: Motorists Warned After Negligent Driver Slams Morris Plains Police Car
Drivers are being warned by police about New Jersey’s ‘Move Over Law’ after a Morris Plains patrol car was slammed during a traffic stop in Morris Plains. The law states that the driver has to safely change lanes when approaching an emergency vehicle on the side of the roadway. If a lane change cannot be made, the driver must slow down and prepare to stop while approaching the emergency vehicle. The violation and resulting crash occurred just after 9:25 p.m. Saturday, April 8 during a traffic stop on Tabor Road in Morris Plains, local police said. The driver struck the officer’s lit and m…
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'I'm No Hero': Former Marine, Tow Truck Driver Details Route 17 Rescue
The way Paul Cameci sees it, he was simply doing the right thing when he rescued a man from his overturned vehicle on Route 17 last month. Carmeci was driving to his job at Nick's Towing Service early Friday, March 10, and was on the northbound exit ramp off Route 3 West in Rutherford, when he saw debris and a tractor trailer in front of him. He got out of his tow truck and saw something even more horrific: "I could see the person's hand sticking out of the passenger window," Carmeci said. Hero Paul Carmeci of Nick's Towing Service in Rutherford.Nick's 24-Hour Towing Service The dri…
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! Parsippany PD Reminds Motorists To Obey Law After Officer Injured
Parsippany police are reminding drivers to move one lane over after one motorist failed to do that and injured an officer. The officer was pulled over on Route 10 Wednesday to help a disabled Wegmans tractor-trailer when he was slammed from behind by a Nissan Altima just west of Tabor Road on the westbound side of the highway around 6:20 p.m., Parsippany Police Sgt. Brian Conover said. The patrol vehicle, which the officer was inside of at the time of the crash, was pushed forward into the rear or the disabled trailer. The Nissan subsequently became lodged under the side of the tractor tr…
Police & Fire
West Orange Firefighter Hurt In 280 Crash In Serious But Stable Condition
A firefighter remains hospitalized a week after he was seriously injured in a chain-reaction crash on I-280 in West Orange, according to a social media post shared by the township Monday. Firefighter William Holder, who has been with the department for six years, was in serious but stable condition at University Hospital in Newark. He is showing signs of improvement, according FMBA Local 28 & 22B. Holder was one of several first-responders hurt when a dump truck crashed into an ambulance at the side of the highway and then crashed into a fire engine. Three state troopers, two West Or…
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'Inches From Being Killed': Responder At Route 280 Pileup Begs Motorists To Slow Down
In a heartfelt public appeal, a responder who was at the scene of a dump truck crash Tuesday on Route 280 urged drivers to approach accident sites cautiously. "I beg you, even if this just reaches one person, PLEASE slow down and move over if you see emergency lights -- or even just a car pulled over on the side of the road," EMT Tyler Treible wrote on Facebook. Treible and his partner (and girlfriend) Taylor Van Sant were in the second ambulance that responded to a crash on the highway in West Orange just before 10:30 a.m. "While we were on scene we heard the air horn of a dump truck seco…
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