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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 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.

Paramus police are investigating the cause of the Tuesday morning crash on East Ridgewood Avenue just off Route 17.

Boyd A. Loving

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.

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.

Boyd A. Loving

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.

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.

Boyd A. Loving

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