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UPDATE: Traffic Still Stretches For Miles Hours After NY State Thruway Overpass Is Struck UPDATE: Traffic Still Stretches For Miles Hours After NY State Thruway Overpass Is Struck
Update: Traffic Still Stretches For Miles Hours After NY State Thruway Overpass Is Struck UPDATE: The southbound New York State Thruway was entirely reopened by 7 p.m. Thursday following repairs to a severely damaged overpass. An overheight hollow steel tower being transported on a trailer struck and severely damaged the South Broadway bridge in Orangetown at 6:45 a.m. Aug. 31, according to New York State Police. The result: A traffic standstill that at one point stretched nearly a dozen miles, various feeder roadways choked with vehicles and countless motorists looking for a way out. It was the third time that particular overpass had been struck in less than a year, commuters…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
NY Man Killed In Montvale Garden State Parkway Hit-Run NY Man Killed In Montvale Garden State Parkway Hit-Run
NY Man Killed In Montvale Garden State Parkway Hit-Run A 77-year-old New York man was killed in a hit-and-run crash on the Garden State Parkway in Montvale Thursday night. Howard Perlman was heading northbound in the right lane when his Toyota Venza was struck by an unknown vehicle around 7:10 p.m. near milepost 172.3, New Jersey State Police Sgt. Alejandro Goez said. The Toyota went off the road to the right and struck several trees as the unknown vehicle fled the scene, the sergeant said. Perlman, of Hopewell Junction (Dutchess County) was rushed to Nyack Hospital with serious injuries, where he was later pronounced dead. The accident remai…

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by Cecilia Levine