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Old Tappan Crash Downs Wires, Triggers Airbags, Doesn't Keep Driver From Hotel Job In Rockland Old Tappan Crash Downs Wires, Triggers Airbags, Doesn't Keep Driver From Hotel Job In Rockland
Old Tappan Crash Downs Wires, Triggers Airbags, Doesn't Keep Driver From Hotel Job In Rockland A driver who slammed his SUV into a utility pole in Old Tappan kept going -- with all of his airbags deployed -- all the way to his job at a hotel in Rockland County, authorities said. Juan Gonzalez, 48, of Hawthorne, drove off after his 2004 Acura MDX hit the pole on Old Tappan Road, downing utility wires, outside an Exxon station near DeWolf Road shortly before 3 p.m. Monday, Feb. 26. An alert was immediately broadcast, Old Tappan Police Chief Joseph Tracy said. Orangetown police found the heavily damaged SUV a short time later at the Residence Inn by Marriott just off the Palisades Inte…
Driver Who Did 100MPH+ In Wrong-Way Crash That Killed Three In Jersey City Indicted: Prosecutor Driver Who Did 100MPH+ In Wrong-Way Crash That Killed Three In Jersey City Indicted: Prosecutor
Driver Who Did 100MPH+ In Wrong-Way Crash That Killed Three In Jersey City Indicted: Prosecutor 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘: A Jersey City driver who authorities said was doing over 100 miles an hour before a head-on crash on a treacherous stretch of road that killed three people was indicted on major charges. Ziyang Wang, 23, was behind the wheel of a BMW X5 M50i that collided with a Kia Amanti after it came around a blind curve on the wrong side of Paterson Plank Road, just south of Congress Street, on Oct. 16, 2023, authorities said at the time. Wang had four other people in the car with him, two of whom died in the crash along with the Kia driver, Dylan Weidenfeld, 26, of Jersey City, who was pronounc…
Driver In Bizarre Crash Off Overpass Onto Route 17 In Ramsey Charged With DWI Assault Driver In Bizarre Crash Off Overpass Onto Route 17 In Ramsey Charged With DWI Assault
Driver In Bizarre Crash Off Overpass Onto Route 17 In Ramsey Charged With DWI Assault UPDATE: A Ramsey driver was drunk when her out-of-control SUV crashed through an overpass guard rail and rolled down an embankment onto Route 17, where it broadsided another vehicle, authorities said. Good Samaritans rushed to upright the 2018 Toyota Rav4 and help Rosa Griffin, 56, out after the bizarre crash shortly before 5 p.m. Monday, July 24, Ramsey Police Detective Jaclyn Sabatelli said. Griffin was headed north on Franklin Turnpike when she lost control of the Rav4, Sabatelli said. The SUV hit the curb-high barrier median, then accelerated through a guardrail and a thicket of brush…
Assault By Auto Charges For Morris County Man Who Hit Woman With Car During Argument: Police Assault By Auto Charges For Morris County Man Who Hit Woman With Car During Argument: Police
Assault By Auto Charges For Morris County Man Who Hit Woman With Car During Argument: Police A Morris County man who deliberately struck a woman with his car during an argument at a local pizza shop was charged with assault by auto and several other offenses, authorities said. Oscar Trejo Cardona, 25, was charged with assault by auto, operating a vehicle without a license causing serious bodily injury, endangerment, failure to report an accident, careless driving, reckless driving, driving without a license, and leaving the scene of an accident involving personal injury, Hanover Police said in a release on Friday, June 24. Officers responding to the assault report at Milan Pizza in…
Pro NJ Boxer Misses Court Appearance For Fatal Fentanyl Crash: Report Pro NJ Boxer Misses Court Appearance For Fatal Fentanyl Crash: Report
Pro NJ Boxer Misses Court Appearance For Fatal Fentanyl Crash: Report A professional bare-knuckle boxer from Hackensack who was believed under the influence of fentanyl when he was involved in a fatal crash failed to appear in Salem County court, NJ Advance Media reported. “Bobby Gunn,” as he’s known in the sports world, had been a fugitive in the September 2019 crash that killed a 51-year-old woman until June 2020, when he surrendered to New Jersey State Police's Woodstown Station in Pilesgrove. Gunn was due to appear in Superior Court on Thursday, April 7, but didn’t show apparently due to medical issues, according to NJ.com. He was charged with death …
NJ Auto Shop Finds Human Teeth Stuck In Car After Deadly Shopping Cart Crash: Report NJ Auto Shop Finds Human Teeth Stuck In Car After Deadly Shopping Cart Crash: Report
NJ Auto Shop Finds Human Teeth Stuck In Car After Deadly Shopping Cart Crash: Report An auto body shop found human remains stuck in a car's undercarriage more than a month after a crash that killed a man pushing a shopping cart on the New Jersey Turnpike, local police confirmed. A driver involved in the crash brought her car to the Goodyear Auto Shop in Linden on Monday, Feb. 7 for service, when mechanics noticed some human remains stuck in the undercarriage, Lt. Christopher Guenther said. "She may have thought she ran over some kind of debris, but as it turned out it was some remains," Guenther told NBC News. "She wasn't the initial striking vehicle, and for whatever reaso…
Sussex Dump Truck Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Route 3 Crash Death Of Girl, 1 Sussex Dump Truck Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Route 3 Crash Death Of Girl, 1
Sussex Dump Truck Driver Charged With Vehicular Homicide In Route 3 Crash Death Of Girl, 1 The driver of a dump truck involved in a summertime crash that killed a 1-year-old girl on Route 3 in Clifton was arrested and charged with vehicular homicide, authorities announced Tuesday. Chad Hines, 41, of Wantage remained free pending a first appearance Wednesday in Central Judicial Processing Court in Paterson, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes and Clifton Police Chief Thomas Rinaldi said in a joint announcement. Jamie Yarrish, 25, of Clifton had her infant daughter, Jaelynn, with her when a 2005 Mack Conventional Cab dump truck driven by Hines struck her 2019 Honda Civic o…
Bronx Trio Nabbed In Parkway Pursuit That Seriously Injured Essex County Driver Bronx Trio Nabbed In Parkway Pursuit That Seriously Injured Essex County Driver
Bronx Trio Nabbed In Parkway Pursuit That Seriously Injured Essex County Driver Three Bronx, NY residents were arrested in connection with a Garden State Parkway pursuit that left one person seriously injured, authorities said. Troopers saw a gray BMW sedan pull out of the Brookdale Service Area and being speeding southbound on the highway in Bloomfield (Essex County) around 2:20 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 6, New Jersey State Police said. As troopers attempted to stop the BMW, the driver got off the highway, then got back on -- still speeding, police said. The vehicle struck an Acura TL off Exit 150 on Hoover Avenue, sending the driver to the hospital with serious injur…
SEE ANYTHING? Pedestrian Struck Just Off Route 46 In Ridgefield SEE ANYTHING? Pedestrian Struck Just Off Route 46 In Ridgefield
SEE Anything? Pedestrian Struck Just Off Route 46 In Ridgefield A 24-year-old pedestrian from Queens was struck crossing a Ridgefield street Tuesday night, said police who were seeking witnesses. The Flushing woman was crossing Grand Avenue headed west in the crosswalk when she was struck by a 2016 BMW X5 driven by a 44-year-old borough man making a right turn from Maple Avenue shortly before 6:15 p.m., Deputy Police Chief Robert Meurer said. Police and EMS provided emergency first aid to the pedestrian, who was taken to Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck with injuries that Meurer said weren't life-threatening. The deputy chief asked Wednesday th…