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: Port Authority PD, Tunnel And Bridge Agents Rescue Dangling Baby In GWB SUV Crash
A 14-month-old boy was dangling from his car seat, held in place by the straps, after an SUV ended up precariously perched on two wheels against the divider of the approach to the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee. The boy’s mother and another adult were cushioned by the Chevy Equinox’s airbags, but the vehicle itself was unstable. Port Authority police and tunnel and bridge agents had to get the diaper-clad child out. Once they did, Officer TJ McPike wrapped the boy in his uniform shirt and passed him off to Officer Greg Rose, who comforted the youngster until his mother was rescued. …
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Atlantic City Woman, 57, Struck, Killed While Helping Stranded Motorist At Route 30 Crash Scene
A motorist who stopped to help another motorist involved in a crash was struck and killed in South Jersey, authorities said. Atlantic City police were called to Route 30 on a report of a collision about 10 p.m. Wednesday, a department spokesman said. Responding patrol officers found that a Jeep SUV operated by an unidentified driver, 35, from Atlantic City, struck a center median and became disabled in the left lane of eastbound traffic. Several vehicles stopped to assist in the removal of the woman from the disabled vehicle, according to Lt. Kevin Fair. Then, as a Toyota Camr…
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Tractor-Trailer Bound For Amazon Plant Creams One Car, Damages Others In South Hackensack
A tractor-trailer hit three vehicles, severely damaging one of them, in South Hackensack late Wednesday, authorities said.The driver of the Crystal Freight rig out of Loveland, Ohio was headed to an Amazon facility in Teterboro when he turned down the wrong street shortly before 11 p.m., Detective Capt. Robert Chinchar said. The 18-wheeler stuck and dragged a 2019 Toyota Camry that, in turn, hit a 2013 Nissan Rogue and 2000 Toyota Avalon, Chinchar said.The Camry sustained significant damage and was removed by Tummino’s Towing, the captain said.The other two vehicles sustained minor dama…
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Saddle Brook Driver Charged With DWI In Fiery Head-On Paramus Crash That Severely Injured Woman
UPDATE: A Saddle Brook driver responsible for a fiery wrong-way head-on crash in Paramus that severely injured the other motorist was drunk at the time, authorities said Monday. Robert Stevens, 63, was driving a 2010 BMW X5 that witnesses said veered into oncoming traffic on Paramus Road near Alpine Drive and slammed into a 2019 Honda CRV driven by Theresa Plummer, 44, of Bloomfield shortly after 5 p.m. Friday. Off-duty Bergen Prosecutor’s Detective Douglas Rager and other good Samaritans rescued Stevens, his 58-year-old brother, Michael, and Plummer before both vehicles exploded in flames…
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Firefighters Extricate Driver With Severe Head Injury In Crash Off Route 208
A driver suffered traumatic head injuries and had to be extricated by Franklin Lakes firefighters after she ran a stop sign and her car was hit by a truck, authorities said. The 27-year-old Paterson driver had exited northbound Route 208 to Summit Avenue shortly before 7:30 a.m., Police Sgt. Denny G. Knubel said. She made a left onto Summit without stopping and her Nissan Sentra was struck by a Freightliner driven by a 66-year-old borough man, Knubel said. The Sentra then hit a BMW 530 driven by a 48-year-old Riverdale man who was headed north on Summit, he said. The truck and Sentra "wen…
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: Driver Tosses Pistol During Police Pursuit That Ends In Paterson Crash
The fleeing driver of a vehicle that crashed into two others in Paterson during a pre-dawn New Jersey State Police chase Sunday tossed a gun out the window, authorities said. The occupant of one of the struck vehicles was hospitalized with injuries that weren't considered life-threatening following the crash at 10th Avenue and East 24th Street around 2 a.m., responders said. The other vehicle that was hit was parked, they said. Along the way, the driver tossed a bag on northbound Route 20, police said. Inside the bag was a 9mm Ruger that troopers recovered, they said. The driver was tak…
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: Jersey Shore Woman, 25, Dead, 4 Injured In Fiery Route 24 Chain Reaction Crash
A 25-year-old Jersey Shore driver died in a Morris County crash Saturday, authorities said. Stephanie Santora, of Jackson, was behind the wheel of an unknown vehicle that was struck by a truck pulling a utility trailer east in the left lane of Route 24 near mile post 5.7 at 12:22 p.m., NJSP Sgt. Alejandro Goez said. The impact of the crash sent Santora's car into a Toyota RAV4, which then struck a Jeep Cherokee, Goez said. Santora's car went up in flames and she was pronounced dead, while her 26-year-old male passenger was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. The truck d…
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PA Motorcyclist Streams His Deadly Crash On Facebook Live
A 26-year-old motorcyclist was streaming live on Facebook when he crashed on Interstate 83 and died Sunday. The 43-second clip posted to Patrick Clafferty's Facebook page appears to show him flying off of his motorcycle on the northbound side of the highway. More than $15,000 had been raised as of Monday afternoon on a GoFundMe launched in an effort to help Clafferty's family, including his three children. Clafferty, of York City, apparently lost control of the bike hit the median, ejecting him from from his vehicle, the York County Coroner's Office said. As Clafferty was l…
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Six Years Later, Son Finds Dad's Missing Cellphone At Spot Of Fatal Mahwah Crash
Glenn Slater Jr. had been to the spot in Mahwah where his dad died in a horrific crash nearly three dozen times the past six years. But a visit on Friday was unlike any other. “As always, if I'm nearby I visit the site” in the northwest corner of Bergen County where Glenn Sr. was killed in a horrific crash, he said. Glenn Jr., 33, of West Milford returned on Friday and was about to leave when he spotted it. “On the ground, covered by a layer of dirt…I found my dad's cell phone,” he wrote. “Or maybe it found me.” Glenn Sr., 62, was driving a water tank that struck several trees and flippe…
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Girl, 14, Struck By Van In Englewood
A 14-year-old Englewood girl was struck crossing a city street Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. The 36-year-old Secaucus driver of the Ford van that hit her at the intersection of Tenafly Road and Hudson Avenue shortly before 3:30 p.m. said he was "temporarily blinded by the glare of the sun," Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said. The girl was conscious and alert when she was taken to nearby Englewood Hospital and Medical Center with hip and shoulder injuries, he said. Police were investigating, the deputy chief said. ****** ALSO SEE: Englewood police captured a violent repeat o…
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