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The 35-year-old driver from New York and his passenger got out OK after the 2009 Mazda Tribute landed in Indian Lake shortly before 6 p.m. Thursday, June 13, Little Ferry Police Chief James Walters said.
A dive team made sure no one else was in the vehicle.
The driver told police he was attempting to slow down on Bergen Turnpike in order to make a right onto Lakeview Avenue when he hit the gas instead of the brake, the chief said.
Needless to say, he received several summonses.
The friend was ticketed, too, for allowing an unlicensed driver behind the wheel of his vehicle, the chief said.
Brookside Towing fished the vehicle out of the lake.
"Thank God there were no injuries," Walters said. "That a very busy time of day there."
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