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Clifton Police SUV Rolls In Multi-Vehicle Crash

Two officers and a civilian were injured in a crash involving two Clifton police vehicles, one of which overturned, Monday night, responders said.

Overturned Clifton police SUV off the corner of Main and Clifton avenues in Clifton.

Overturned Clifton police SUV off the corner of Main and Clifton avenues in Clifton.

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Police were headed to a report of a carjacked vehicle from which shots had been fired in Paterson a short time earlier when the crash occurred at the intersection of Main and Clifton avenues around 9:30 p.m., Detective Lt. Robert Bracken.

The two officers and civilian were all taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center, where they were treated before being released, Bracken said.

The carjacked vehicle -- a 2004 Acura -- wasn't found, he said.

Someone in that vehicle had fired more than a dozen rounds at East 38th Street and 17th Avenue in Paterson moments before the crash, responders said. No one was believed wounded in the shooting.

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