Paramus Sanitation Truck, Jeep Collide Just Off Route 17

A Jeep crashed through a fence and landed on its side after a collision Tuesday morning with a Paramus sanitation truck just off Route 17.

The Jeep Compass landed on its side in a collision with a municipal garbage truck just off Route 17 in Paramus on Tuesday, March 7.
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving*

Paramus police are investigating the cause of the Tuesday morning crash on East Ridgewood Avenue just off Route 17.
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving*

The Jeep driver climbed out after the vehicle crashed through a fence and landed on its side just off Route 17 in Paramus on Tuesday, March 7.
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving*

The 23-year-old Jeep Compass driver climbed out on the passenger side with what responders described as a minor hand injury following the crash on East Ridgewood Avenue in Paramus shortly after 9 a.m. March 7.
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving*

Jerry DeMarco

03/07/2023 11:40 a.m.

The 23-year-old Jeep Compass driver climbed out on the passenger side with what responders described as a minor hand injury following the crash on East Ridgewood Avenue shortly after 9 a.m. March 7.

He was taken to a nearby hospital by a Paramus EMS unit.

None of the borough workers were injured in the collision, which only damaged their truck's front bumper.

A tow truck righted and removed the Jeep.

Paramus police are investigating the cause.

Borough firefighters and a Bergen County sheriff's officer also responded.

Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this story.

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