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Police & Fire
'Extremely Difficult' Extrication Ends With Firefighters Freeing Trapped Driver Off Route 17
HEROES: Waldwick firefighters completed what authorities called an "extremely difficult operation" by freeing a driver whose sedan had crashed in a wooded area off rain-slicked Route 17. The BMW crashed partially down an embankment at the particularly troublesome Sheridan Avenue ramp off the southbound highway around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 3. The single-vehicle collision heavily entrapped the driver, responders said. Waldwick's finest (Rescue 642 and Squad 633) had to contend with the elements, mud on the slope and a heavily damaged vehicle. They safely extricated the driver, who…
Police & Fire
Mini School Bus Broadsided In Ridgewood (
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No children were aboard a mini school bus that was broadsided by a sedan in Ridgewood early Friday. Three adults on the bus declined medical attention following the T-bone crash at the intersection of Kenilworth and Laurel roads shortly before 8:30 a.m. Feb. 16. The impact sent the minibus crashing partly through a fence and wrapped the driver's side STOP sign around a tree. Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE The impact sent the Paterson-based We Care School Trans minibus crashing partly through a fence and wrapped the driver's side STOP sign around a tree. The Honda Accord driver chec…
Police & Fire
One Caught, On Sought: Pair Wanted In Paterson Armed Robberies Pursued Through Fair Lawn
A police pursuit through Fair Lawn of two men wanted for a pair of armed robberies in Paterson ended, as Christmas Eve began, with one caught and the other sought. Authorities had been looking for a stolen Chevy Colorado pickup truck used in both holdups, including the robbery of a 7-Eleven on Ryerson Avenue around midnight on Friday, Dec. 22. Paterson Street Crime detectives spotted the pickup and pursued it into Fair Lawn around midnight Sunday. The pair bailed out near the intersection of Canger Place and Bellair Avenue. Citywide Towing collected the stolen pickup truck. Kyle Mazza…
Police & Fire
Violent Crash Traps Driver Outside Ridgewood Grade School Minutes Before Dismissal
Pupils at a Ridgewood elementary school were minutes from dismissal on Wednesday when a violent collision outside destroyed the front of one SUV and flipped another, trapping the driver inside. Village firefighters quickly extricated the young female driver of a Nissan Rogue that landed on its roof after being T-boned by a Subaru Outback at the corner of Fairfield and East Glen Avenue at 2:45 p.m. Dec. 20. She was conscious and alert as a Ridgewood EMS ambulance took her a half-dozen blocks to The Valley Hospital. Citywide Towing removed the vehicles from the intersection outside the K-5 T…
Police & Fire
Driver Hospitalized After SUV Narrowly Misses Bus Shelter, Slams Into Tree On Route 17
A driver was hospitalized with chest pains following a pre-dawn single-vehicle crash Friday on rain-soaked Route 17. The SUV narrowly missed taking out a bus shelter but ran over a sign and then slammed into a tree on the highway's southbound side just past Hollywood Avenue in Ho-Ho-Kus shortly before 6:30 a.m. Oct. 20. The driver was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. The wreckage was removed on a Citywide Towing flatbed. Citywide Towing removed the severely damaged SUV on a flatbed.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Ho-Ho-Kus police, firefighters and Volunteer Ambulance Corps a…
Police & Fire
Jeep Rams Electrical Box In Ridgewood
Bollards planted around a roadside electrical box mostly did their job during an early-morning crash Wednesday in Ridgewood. No injuries were reported after a Jeep Wrangler and Mercedes sedan collided outside the Bergen County Duck Pond in front of Valley Health Systems on East Ridgewood Avenue near Paramus Road shortly before 7:30 a.m. Sept. 13. Despite the protection, the impact knocked the box from its base, leaving it dented. The Jeep also uprooted a small sign. CityWide Towing removed the vehicles after a PSE&G crew de-energized the box. Paramus police helped with traffic contro…
Police & Fire
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: Tractor-Trailer Tips Over Median, Dumps Trash Across Treacherous Stretch Of Route 17
A tractor-trailer hauling garbage tipped over a median on Route 17 Friday morning at what police and commuters say has become an all-too-frequent site for such crashes near the New York State border. The driver was initially entrapped but climbed out on his own after his northbound rig went over the divider near the Route 202 exit at Mountainside Avenue at 8:43 a.m. Sept. 8, Mahwah Police Chief Timothy O'Hara said. He had minor injuries and refused medical attention, the chief said. Traffic quickly thickened on both sides of Route 17. All lanes were very briefly closed while the first r…
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Messy Tractor Trailer Crash Shuts All Lanes Of Route 17 In Mahwah (
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A tractor-trailer hauling garbage tipped over a median on Route 17 Friday morning at what police and commuters say has become an all-too-frequent site for such crashes near the New York State border. The driver was initially entrapped but climbed out on his own after his northbound rig went over the divider near the Route 202 exit at Mountainside Avenue at 8:43 a.m. Sept. 8, Mahwah Police Chief Timothy O'Hara said. He had minor injuries and refused medical attention, the chief said. Traffic quickly thickened on both sides of Route 17. All lanes were very briefly closed while the first re…
Police & Fire
Driver Seriously Injured In Route 208 Crash
A motorist was seriously injured Thursday afternoon when his sedan slammed head-on into a utility pole on Route 208. The airbags in his older-model Volkswagen Jetta deployed in the crash at Harristown Road off the northbound highway in Glen Rock shortly after 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 31. Members of the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps took him to St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson. Police, meanwhile, doused a small engine fire with an extinguisher. Glen Rock police doused a small engine fire with an extinguisher after the Route 208 crash at Harristown Road.Boyd A. L…
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Head-On Crash: Utility Pole Snapped, Transformer Lands In Truck And Driver's OK In Fair Lawn
A driver somehow escaped serious injury in Fair Lawn on Thursday when his box truck skimmed a tree, bowled over four street signs and slammed flush into a utility pole, snapping it clean in half. Not only did the upper section of the streetlight pole land on top of the truck in the collision on Lincoln Avenue near Loretto Avenue around 1:30 p.m. July 27. The transformer also fell through the roof into the cargo area (see photo above). The driver told police a car cut in front of him, prompting him to swerve and lose control of the Pattman Plumbing truck from Midland Park. The driver t…
Police & Fire
SUV Slams Into Parked Cars In Ridgewood
A driver may have had a medical episode before his SUV struck three parked vehicles in Ridgewood on Tuesday, responders said. The senior driver of the Honda CRV was alert and conscious when members of the Ridgewood Volunteer Ambulance Corps loaded him into their rig following the crash on Cottage Place near the Stop & Shop on Franklin Avenue just before 1 p.m. July 18. He was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. The senior driver was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood.Boyd A. Loving Citywide Towing removed the SUV and a Honda Fit that was struck. A Mercedes Benz C300 …
Police & Fire
Heroes
: Firefighters Team Up To Extricate Trapped Driver In Glen Rock Utility Pole Crash
Firefighters freed a trapped young driver whose SUV slammed into a utility pole and landed on its side late Sunday in Glen Rock. Glen Rock firefighters were assisted by their colleagues from Hawthorne on Harristown Road, across from the Alexander Hamilton Elementary School near Maple Avenue and northbound Route 208, around 11 p.m. June 25. The heroes got the Chevy Trax stabilized, then carefully and safely freed the 22-year-old Wayne driver. She was alert and talking with them before being by the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps to Hackensack University Medical Center. The heroes …
Police & Fire
Driver, Passenger Hospitalized After Uber Barrels Into Parked Teslas Off Route 17
An Uber driver and his female passenger were hospitalized after a chain-reaction collision that sent his sedan off rain-slicked Route 17 and into the parking lot of a Tesla dealership. Two vehicles in the Tesla Paramus lot on the northbound highway just before A&S Drive were damaged by the Toyota Corolla shortly before 7 a.m. Saturday, June 24. The pair in the Corolla were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center by Paramus EMS. Citywide Towing removed the sedan. Outside the Tesla Paramus dealership on northbound Route 17 before A&S Drive.Boyd A. Loving A second car invol…
Police & Fire
Teens OK After Wheel Caves In Mercedes SUV Crash In Ridgewood
A 17-year-old driver and her teenage passenger were OK after a front wheel of their Mercedes caved in when the SUV hit a curb in Ridgewood on Tuesday. The driver sustained a minor leg injury for which she was treated at the scene by EMTs from the village Fire Department following the June 20 crash at the intersection of Monte Vista Avenue and Heights Road. Both refused transportation to the hospital. Citywide Towing removed the GLA 35 on a flatbed. The 17-year-old driver and her teenage passenger were OK following the crash at the corner of Monte Vista Avenue and Heights Road on June …
Police & Fire
Ridgewood Woman Had Young Son In Car When She Slashed BF In Fair Lawn, Police Say
UPDATE: A 22-year-old Ridgewood woman had her 4-year-old son in the back seat when she slashed her boyfriend with a knife in her car Thursday night in Fair Lawn, authorities confirmed. Trinity Rodriguez fled the parking lot of Fairlawn Industries, leaving the victim behind, but was nabbed by borough police a few blocks away, they said. The victim, 27, from Garfield, held a gauze pad to his bleeding arm while talking with responding officers on the other side of Maple Avenue from the Craftsman restaurant around 7:45 p.m. May 18. He eventually got into a Fair Lawn ambulance and was taken to…
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Update
: Knife-Wielding Woman Slashes BF In Fair Lawn, Flees With Son, 4
UPDATE: A 22-year-old Ridgewood woman had her 4-year-old son in the back seat when she slashed her boyfriend with a knife in her car Thursday night in Fair Lawn, authorities confirmed. Trinity Rodriguez fled the parking lot of Fairlawn Industries, leaving the victim behind, but was nabbed by borough police a few blocks away, they said. The victim, 27, from Garfield, held a gauze pad to his bleeding arm while talking with responding officers on the other side of Maple Avenue from the Craftsman restaurant around 7:45 p.m. May 18. He eventually got into a Fair Lawn ambulance and was taken to…
Police & Fire
Multi-Vehicle Ridgewood Crash Severely Damages Two Of Them
A multi-vehicle crash in Ridgewood severely damaged two of them and got a young female driver a summons. A Lexus ES350 and a Honda Odyssey both were removed by Citywide Towing following the crash at North Van Dien and East Ridgewood avenues around 5:45 p.m. Friday, May 12. A Land Rover was able to be driven away. No serious injuries were reported. Village firefighters cleaned up a fuel spill. A young female driver received a summons following the crash at North Van Dien and East Ridgewood avenues in Ridgewood around 5:45 p.m. Friday, May 12.Boyd A. Loving Boyd A. Loving took the p…
Police & Fire
Runaway SUV Slams Into Pool House In Hawthorne
A runaway SUV significantly damaged a pool house in Hawthorne, authorities said. The driver said she started the parked Mercedes GLA 250 and it just took off, slamming into the building at a residential complex on Morningstar Road around 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 10. She wasn't injured, responders said. The driver said she started the parked Mercedes GLA 250 and it just took off.Boyd A. Loving Hawthorne police and firefighters responded along with a building code official who deemed the damage significant. Citywide Towing removed the Mercedes on a flatbed. The pool house crash at the …
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: Driver Hospitalized After SUV Hits Two Parked Vehicles In Glen Rock
The driver of an SUV that slammed into two parked vehicles was hospitalized following a late-night weekend crash in Glen Rock. Airbags deployed in the Ford Expedition, which landed on its side on Rock Road at the T intersection from Midwood Road shortly before 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18. Damaged were a nearly 20-year-old Honda CR-V and a newer Honda Accord. Citywide Towing removed all three vehicles after the crash on Rock Road at Midwood Road in Glen Rock shortly before 10:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18.Boyd A. Loving The driver got out through the moon roof and was taken to the Valley H…
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Route 208 Closed More Than Hour After SUV Crash Downs Utility Line
Route 208 was closed for more than an hour after an SUV slammed into a utility pole, downing a wire across the highway around noontime Wednesday. The driver of the Honda emerged uninjured from the crash on Harristown Road in Glen Rock, across the highway from Fair Lawn Fire Company No. 2, shortly after 11 a.m. Jan. 4. Glen Rock police were joined by their police colleagues from Fair Lawn and Hawthorne and the Bergen County Sheriff's Office. The driver of the Honda emerged uninjured from the crash on Harristown Road in Glen Rock on Wednesday, Jan. 4.Boyd A. Loving There was no immediate…
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In One End, Out The Other: SUV Barrels Through Ridgewood Garage (
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An out-of-control SUV barreled clear through the garage of a private home during a collision with a sedan in Ridgewood on Wednesday. No injuries were reported in the chain-reaction crash, which sent the Acura MDX through the North Van Dien Street garage's side wall near Beverly Road around 3:45 p.m. Dec. 21. The SUV continued out through the garage door at the other end and through a fence before stopping on the lawn right next to the porch. 68-78 North Van Dien Avenue, RidgewoodBoyd A. Loving The other vehicle, an Audi A5, was damaged and a street sign uprooted -- not to mention the…
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: Wrong-Way Sedan Gets Stuck On Bergen Tracks, Service Delayed Nearly An Hour
A driver who stuck to the GPS instructions got stuck on the railroad tracks in Ho-Ho-Kus, leading to delays Monday night of nearly an hour. The driver had come down Glenwood Road from Ridgewood during the Dec. 20 evening rush and, following the GPS, made a left near the Ho-Ho-Kus train station -- only too soon. The Ford sedan instantly got stuck on the tracks. NJ TRANSIT's Emergency Services Unit got the car off the tracks in Ho-Ho-Kus.Boyd A. Loving Citywide Towing initially sent a lift instead of a flatbed, so NJ TRANSIT's Emergency Services Unit responded to free the vehicle so it c…
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School Bus Driver, 71, Charged In Glen Rock Crash, Frightened Special Needs Kids Hospitalized
UPDATE: The 71-year-old driver of a mini school bus involved in a crash in Glen Rock that sent two frightened special needs students to the hospital caused the collision when he pulled into the path of the other vehicle, police said. An aide and the driver of the Honda Pilot were treated at the scene by members of the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps after the crash at the confluence of Park, Highwood and Maple avenues shortly after 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. The 71-year-old Paterson man who was driving the children and aide to Bergen County …
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Mini School Bus, SUV Collide In Glen Rock
Two special needs students were taken to the hospital after a mini school bus and an SUV collided in Glen Rock. An aide and the driver of the Honda Pilot were treated at the scene by members of the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps after the crash at the confluence of Park, Highwood and Maple avenues at 8:19 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. A 71-year-old Paterson man who was driving the children and aide to Bergen County Special Services in Paramus in the Hackensack-based Pro-Trans School Transportation bus failed to yield at the intersection of Highwood…
Police & Fire
Three Hospitalized When Vans Collide In Ho-Ho-Kus
Three people were hospitalized in a Ho-Ho-Kus crash Tuesday, Oct. 11. The minivan and the work van collided at the intersection of Wearimus and Deerhill roads sometime in the afternoon hours. Both occupants of the minivan, a man and woman, were hospitalized, as was the driver of the work van. The minivan driver was apparently issued a summons. Both vehicles were towed by CityWide towing. Boyd A. Loving also contributed to this story.
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Senior Fair Lawn Driver Hospitalized Following Crash At Busy Glen Rock Intersection
A senior driver from Fair Lawn was hospitalized following a crash at a busy Glen Rock intersection. The victim was conscious and alert while being tended to by police and EMTs from the Glen Rock Volunteer Ambulance Corps after her Honda Civic collided with a Jeep Commander at the corner of Maple and Glen avenues around 6:15 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17. She was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center. An elderly male passenger with her was uninjured. The Honda Civic and Jeep Commander collided at the corner of Maple and Glen avenues in Glen Rock.Boyd A. Loving Citywide Towing removed …
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Unlicensed Wyckoff Driver, 16, Causes Glen Rock Crash, Rockland Vehicle Owner Cited
An unlicensed 16-year-old driver from Wyckoff caused a three-vehicle crash in Glen Rock that severely damaged a Rockland resident's Jeep, authorities said. The teen carelessly turned the 2020 Jeep Compass from Park Avenue into the path of an oncoming vehicle on Maple Avenue shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Both then slammed into a third vehicle at the stop sign on Maple off Park, the chief said. No injuries were reported. Glen Rock firefighters cleaned up a fuel spill. Citywide Towing removed the Jeep. Police gave the teen summonses for c…
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Three-Wheeler Crash In Paramus Downs Traffic Signal, Sends Rider To Hospital
A rider was hospitalized with a serious leg injury after toppling a traffic light and hitting a utility pole in Paramus. The crash took down the signal at the entrance to the Frisch School and Country Club Plaza office building of West Century Road around 9 a.m. Friday. The new Can Am Ryker, valued at around $9,000, was removed by CityWide Towing. The traffic signal on West Century Road in Paramus was being repaired.Boyd A. Loving Paramus police -- including an Emergency Services Unit -- and borough EMS responded. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this article. Ca…
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Van Towed After Ho-Ho-Kus Crash
A driver escaped injury Friday morning when his van barreled off the road and into a wooded area in Ho-Ho-Kus. The Hawthorne drywall contractor's vehicle crashed on Werimus Road off Deerhill Road near a southbound exit from the Garden State Parkway. Citywide Towing removed the van with a flatbed. Ho-Ho-Kus police were investigating. The borough DPW also responded. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and provided the information for this story. The driver was OK after his van barreled off the road in Ho-Ho-Kus.Boyd A. Loving
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Handcuffed Fugitive Who Jumped Into Passaic River Was Wanted Out Of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts
A suspect who nearly drowned after jumping into the Passaic River while handcuffed was wanted in both Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, authorities said. Juan Castano, 29, of New York was a passenger in a car driven by a Paterson resident that Hawthorne police stopped in response to a call late Tuesday afternoon of two suspicious-looking men peering over the barbed wire fence of the Citywide Towing impound lot in Hawthorne. “People have previously jumped their fence and stolen vehicles that had been impounded due to being stolen,” Hawthorne Detective Lt. Matthew Hoogmoed said Thursday. Borou…
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Good Guys, Bad Guy Go For A Swim: Escaped Prisoner Pulled From Passaic River
GOTCHA! A suspect who nearly drowned after he jumped into the Passaic River while handcuffed was wanted in both Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, authorities said. Juan Castano, 29, of New York was a passenger in a car driven by a Paterson resident that Hawthorne police stopped in response to a call late Tuesday afternoon of two suspicious-looking men peering over the barbed wire fence of the Citywide Towing impound lot in Hawthorne. “People have previously jumped their fence and stolen vehicles that had been impounded due to being stolen,” Hawthorne Detective Lt. Matthew Hoogmoed said Thurs…
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