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Two Hospitalized In Route 17 Pileup

UPDATE: A chain-reaction crash on Route 17 Friday afternoon sent two people to the hospital.

Firefighters freed one of the drivers in the Route 17 crash in Hasbrouck Heights.

Firefighters freed one of the drivers in the Route 17 crash in Hasbrouck Heights.

Photo Credit: Tony Greco for DAILY VOICE
A Jeep was among the badly damaged vehicles.

A Jeep was among the badly damaged vehicles.

Photo Credit: Tony Greco for DAILY VOICE
Hasbrouck Heights firefighters at work on Route 17.

Hasbrouck Heights firefighters at work on Route 17.

Photo Credit: Tony Greco for DAILY VOICE
Hasbrouck Heights Fire Rescue ("Chop Shop") members free driver in Route 17 crash.

Hasbrouck Heights Fire Rescue ("Chop Shop") members free driver in Route 17 crash.

Photo Credit: Tony Greco for DAILY VOICE
Trash heap.

Trash heap.

Photo Credit: Jerry DeMarco

Taken to Hackensack University Medical Center were two drivers -- one 32 out of Clifton, the other 57 out of North Arlington -- following the crash on the northbound highway in Hasbrouck Heights shortly after noon.

Borough firefighters extricated one of them (see photos).

The first vehicle, driven by a 62-year-old Rutherford resident, hit another, sending it into two more vehicles and a tractor-trailer just north of Franklin Avenue, authorities said.

The 24-year-old tractor-trailer driver from Central Bridge, NY, wasn’t injured, nor was a 43-year-old driver from New Milford, they said.

No summonses were issued, although police were still investigating. Bergen County sheriff’s officers assisted them.

Traffic backed up for miles. All of the vehicles were towed.

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ALSO SEE: A trash-hauling tractor-trailer tipped Friday on the Route 46 ramp to the New Jersey Turnpike and Route 80 in Ridgefield Park.

https://dailyvoice.com/new-jersey/ridgefieldpark/news/trash-toting-tractor-trailer-tips-on-route-46-ramp/797463/

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