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Firefighters Free Severely Injured Driver In NJ Turnpike Pileup Firefighters Free Severely Injured Driver In NJ Turnpike Pileup
Firefighters Free Severely Injured Driver In NJ Turnpike Pileup Firefighters extricated the driver of a Lincoln SUV following a chain-reaction crash involving a tractor-trailer on the northbound New Jersey Turnpike in Bergen County. Four victims in all were hospitalized, one of whom was in traumatic arrest, following the pileup shortly before noon Monday near the Emerson Street overpass in Ridgefield Park, responders said. A Jeep and a third SUV were also involved in the crash near mile marker 117.8. Aftermath.Jerry DeMarco Ridgefield Park firefighters freed the trapped driver and cleaned up a large fuel spill. State Police confirmed the crash and…

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RESCUE: Police Heroes Free Trapped Driver Knocked Out In North Jersey Crash RESCUE: Police Heroes Free Trapped Driver Knocked Out In North Jersey Crash
Rescue: Police Heroes Free Trapped Driver Knocked Out In North Jersey Crash A team of police officers rescued a trapped driver who’d been knocked unconscious Thursday when her car barreled down an embankment and into a wooded area between Route 9W and the Palisades Interstate Parkway. The 63-year-old Cliffside Park motorist’s 2011 Toyota Corolla was in a precarious position after veering across the shoulder of northbound 9W, hitting a rock wall, vaulting into a tree and then careening down the embankment shortly before 9 a.m., Tenafly Police Capt. Michael deMoncada said. Tenafly police were joined at the scene by fellow officers from Englewood Cliffs and the Palisa…

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Three Extricated From Minivan, Nine Injured In Palisades Interstate Parkway Pileup Three Extricated From Minivan, Nine Injured In Palisades Interstate Parkway Pileup
Three Extricated From Minivan, Nine Injured In Palisades Interstate Parkway Pileup UPDATE: Five minivan occupants had to be hospitalized -- three of whom were extricated by police -- following a multi-vehicle crash that closed the northbound Palisades Interstate Parkway on Saturday for nearly an hour and a half, authorities said. The 2008 Chrysler minivan, a 2013 BMW X5 SUV and a 2013 Toyota coupe were involved in the 12:30 p.m. crash at Exit 4 on the parkway's northbound side in Alpine, PIP Police Sgt. First Class Raymond E. Walter said. Nine occupants in all required attention after Parkway police extricated three trapped victims from the minivan, Walter said. The five…

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by Jerry DeMarco