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Dashcam: Speeding Wrong-Way Driver Narrowly Misses Tow-Trucker On Route 280 In Morris County Dashcam: Speeding Wrong-Way Driver Narrowly Misses Tow-Trucker On Route 280 In Morris County
Dashcam: Speeding Wrong-Way Driver Narrowly Misses Tow-Trucker On Route 280 In Morris County Anthony Archibald says he was inches away from death when a wrong-way driver zoomed past him in the fast lane of Route 280 in Parsippany. His dashcam captured it all. Archibald, 50 of Hopatcong, was headed eastbound in his tow-truck after pulling a car out of the woods in Roxbury when he saw bright lights coming right at him just around 3:20 a.m. The next thing he knew, the car whipped past him, missing his truck by only several inches, he said. "I was like a deer in headlights," said Archibald, an Ajaco Towing & Recovery employee. Anthony Archibald captured a wrong-way driver c…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Police Tandem Avoids Route 17 Tragedy In Low-Speed Heroin User Chase Police Tandem Avoids Route 17 Tragedy In Low-Speed Heroin User Chase
Police Tandem Avoids Route 17 Tragedy In Low-Speed Heroin User Chase Police from several Northwest Bergen towns thwarted a potentially dangerous incident Wednesday when they closed off a stretch of northbound Route 17 to stop a heroin-addled driver from Rockland whose car bounced off the center divider several times, authorities said. Upper Saddle River Police Officer Kevin McWilliams, responding to another motorist's call, got behind the car around 12:30 p.m., Detective Lt. Edward Kane said. "He kept hitting the center median at about 30 miles an hour," he said. "So the officer activated his lights and siren to try and stop him." The 25-year-old Orangeburg…

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by Jerry DeMarco