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Train Kept Rollin': Driver Of Car Struck At Glen Rock RR Crossing Gets Summons Train Kept Rollin': Driver Of Car Struck At Glen Rock RR Crossing Gets Summons
Train Kept Rollin': Driver Of Car Struck At Glen Rock RR Crossing Gets Summons A Glen Rock driver whose car was clipped by a commuter train will have to explain what happened to a judge, authorities said.  The 59-year-old driver wasn't injured after the last car of the Hoboken-bound Bergen Line NJ Transit train struck the front of his eastbound 2015 Honda Civic, ripping off its bumper, at the Rock Road crossing shortly after 7 a.m. Nov. 24. The train kept rolling. "The engineer was not immediately aware of the collision, as the head end of the train had already cleared the crossing," Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Police gave the driver a summons f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Sedan Slams Into Pillar Outside Clifton Liquor Store Sedan Slams Into Pillar Outside Clifton Liquor Store
Sedan Slams Into Pillar Outside Clifton Liquor Store PHOTOS: A runaway sedan jumped a sidewalk and slammed into a pillar Monday outside a Clifton liquor store. The 58-year-old driver from Guttenberg wasn't seriously injured when her Honda Civic crashed into the pillar in front of Clifton Discount Liquors in Botany Plaza on Ackerman Avenue just off Route 21, police said. Responders initially suspected that she'd had a medical episode, but that couldn't immediately be confirmed. Clifton police, firefighters and EMS responded.Tony Greco for DAILY VOICE The Honda, which was partially blocking the store's entrance, was towed from the scene. …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Driver Hospitalized In Route 17 Rollover Driver Hospitalized In Route 17 Rollover
Driver Hospitalized In Route 17 Rollover A 21-year-old driver from Maywood was hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening following a rollover crash Wednesday morning on rain-slicked Route 17 in Waldwick. His Honda Civic was headed north on the highway when it hit a pothole, hydroplaned into the center median and overturned near Grove Street around 9 a.m., Waldwick Police Lt. Thomas Dowling said. The driver got out on his own before being taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, Dowling said. The crash backed up the highway's northbound side and created southbound rubbernecking. Waldwick police, firefi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Cliffside Park PD: Hudson Ex-Con With 49-Arrest History Captured After Fleeing Stolen Car Crash Cliffside Park PD: Hudson Ex-Con With 49-Arrest History Captured After Fleeing Stolen Car Crash
Cliffside Park PD: Hudson Ex-Con With 49-Arrest History Captured After Fleeing Stolen Car Crash Cliffside Park police chased down a Jersey City ex-con with a rap sheet nearly 50 arrests long after he crashed a stolen car and bailed out, authorities said. Lester Williams, 54, was speeding south on Anderson Avenue in the 2015 Honda Accord late Saturday when he saw a police car and hit the brake, rapidly slowing down, Deputy Police Chief Vincent Capano said. Williams then made a quick left onto eastbound Jersey Avenue at Sal's Deli, where the Accord -- reported stolen earlier out of Bayonne -- slammed into two parked vehicles, one of which was a 2001 Ford Mustang, Capano said. The other…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Driver In Hit-Run Had Warrant Out Of River Edge Driver In Hit-Run Had Warrant Out Of River Edge
Driver In Hit-Run Had Warrant Out Of River Edge The 20-year-old driver in a North Bergen hit-and-run that seriously injured a 47-year-old woman was located after several weeks in Delaware and arrested, said authorities who charged her. Diana Smith, of Elsmere, DE, was behind the wheel of a black Honda Civic that struck the West New York woman at the intersection of Boulevard East and Riverview Drive North, in James J. Braddock Park July 13 around 5 p.m., Hudson County Sheriff Frank X. Schillari said. A male passenger left the car and fled on foot through the park then south on Park Avenue, as Smith took off -- leaving the woman…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Duo Charged In Route 80 Killing Now Accused Of Another Just Days Earlier Duo Charged In Route 80 Killing Now Accused Of Another Just Days Earlier
Duo Charged In Route 80 Killing Now Accused Of Another Just Days Earlier Two men charged with stalking and shooting a driver dead on Route 80 last month killed another man four days earlier on Long Island, authorities there said. Douglas Coudrey, 22, of Eastport, and Kenneth Regan, 21, of Centerreach, are charged with murder in the Jan. 14 shooting death of Justin Gottlieb, 27, of Plainview, Nassau County police said Thursday. Authorities captured and charged Coudrey and Regan on Jan. 22 after Louis Perez, 27, of the Bronx, was shot in his car on Route 80 in Lodi several days earlier. The new charges stem from an apparent drive-by shooting in Plainview, Nassa…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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REPORT: Sussex County Tow Truck Driver Was High On Fentanyl, Morphine In Crash That Killed 2 REPORT: Sussex County Tow Truck Driver Was High On Fentanyl, Morphine In Crash That Killed 2
Report: Sussex County Tow Truck Driver Was High On Fentanyl, Morphine In Crash That Killed 2 A tow truck driver from Sussex County was high on fentanyl and morphine when his truck crossed over the center line and struck a sedan in Lafayette -- leaving two people dead and another injured, a recent report says. Joseph Crilley, 29, of Newton, was charged on Tuesday with drug possession and vehicular manslaughter, Sussex County First Assistant Prosecutor Gregory Mueller said in an article by the Daily Record. Crilley was towing two other vehicles in his Isuzu truck when he crossed the double-yellow line on Route 94 northbound in Lafayette and hit a Honda Civic head-on in the southbound…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Woman, 79, Hit By Car In Mountainside Dies Woman, 79, Hit By Car In Mountainside Dies
Woman, 79, Hit By Car In Mountainside Dies A 79-year-old woman from Mountainside was killed Thursday night when she was struck by a car, police said.  The woman, who was not immediately identified, was crossing at Summit Road and Wyoming Drive shortly after 7 p.m. when she was hit by a Honda Civic. She was pronounced dead at the scene.  The driver, a 27-year-old woman from Lebanon, stopped and remained at the intersection.  Summit Road was closed for four hours for the initial investigation. The investigation was still ongoing as of Friday morning. 

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by Paul Milo