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Driver Flees From Crash That Killed Passenger On Route 9: Prosecutor Driver Flees From Crash That Killed Passenger On Route 9: Prosecutor
Driver Flees From Crash That Killed Passenger On Route 9: Prosecutor A 47-year-old North Plainfield man was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Woodbridge on Saturday, Oct. 25 in which the driver had fled from, authorities said. Mario Ortiz Bonilla was found dead in the front passenger's seat of the 2017 Kia Sportage on Route 9 and Green Street in Woodbridge just after 9:05 a.m., Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone and Woodbridge PD Director Robert Hubner said. The driver had fled the scene, Ciccone and Hubner said. Authorities did not provide further details. The investigation is active and continuing. Anyone with information is asked to call …

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by Cecilia Levine
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PIP FATAL: SUV Crash On NJ Side Kills Rockland Driver, 61 PIP FATAL: SUV Crash On NJ Side Kills Rockland Driver, 61
PIP Fatal: SUV Crash On NJ Side Kills Rockland Driver, 61 UPDATE: A driver from Rockland County died after his SUV slammed into a tree Tuesday afternoon on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Tenafly. Tenafly firefighters extricated Aron Yishai Unger, 61, of Spring Valley following the single-vehicle crash between Exits 1 and 2 of the southbound Parkway at 1:45 p.m., Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Lt. Raymond E. Walter said. Members of Bergen Hatzalah conducted CPR while rushing the driver to the hospital after a medical chopper was summoned and then canceled. Unger was pronounced dead at Hackensack University Medical Center a short tim…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Driver Hospitalized After Fierce Glen Rock Rollover Crash (PHOTOS) Driver Hospitalized After Fierce Glen Rock Rollover Crash (PHOTOS)
Driver Hospitalized After Fierce Glen Rock Rollover Crash (Photos) UPDATE: Bystanders helped free a 30-year-old driver after she fell asleep and her SUV slammed into a utility pole in Glen Rock, authorities said. The 2011 Kia Sportage split the pole into pieces, then rolled onto the driveway of a Lincoln Avenue residence just north of Isabella Place shortly after 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 15, Glen Rock Police Chief Dean Ackermann said. Good Samaritans helped open a hole in the windshield and, with the help of a blanket to cover some of the jagged edges, got the Hawthorne driver out as police pulled up. EMS workers and police tend to the driver whose SUV…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Out-Of-Control SUV Smacks Into Garage, Fence, Gate In Paramus Out-Of-Control SUV Smacks Into Garage, Fence, Gate In Paramus
Out-Of-Control SUV Smacks Into Garage, Fence, Gate In Paramus No injuries were reported when an SUV damaged a Paramus homeowner's garage, gate and fence. The Kia Sportage entered the home's West Midland Avenue driveway off the corner of Paramus Road and kept going, clipping the corner of the three-car detached garage and ramming the fence, around noontime Wednesday, Oct. 5. All Points Towing removed the vehicle. Paramus police and firefighters responded. Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this story. Company! West Midland Avenue at Paramus Road in Paramus around noontime Wednesday, Oct. 5.Boyd A. Loving

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SUVs Collide In Bogota SUVs Collide In Bogota
SUVs Collide In Bogota Four adults refused medical attention after two SUVs collided Wednesday afternoon in Bogota. A Toyota RAV4 whose driver turned suddenly off River Road onto West Main Street was struck by a Kia Sportage headed in the opposite direction around 1 p.m., responders said. The four occupants were treated by a Holy Name Medical Center Ambulance crew for airbag scrapes. The vehicles had to be towed.

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Kind, Generous Fair Lawn Grandfather Dies Kind, Generous Fair Lawn Grandfather Dies
Kind, Generous Fair Lawn Grandfather Dies Tributes continued to mount as news spread of the death of a beloved 75-year-old Fair Lawn man over the weekend. Andrew Feci, 75, was pronounced dead at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, where his wife works, after he went into cardiac arrest behind the wheel of his SUV on Saturday. Andy Feci had a strong mind, a soft heart and a constant smile, those who knew him said. He was "kind, generous and would do anything for anyone," a family friend wrote in tribute. "It came from the heart." The retired over-the-road trucker and his wife "had a love like no other through thick and thin and rais…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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SUV Driver Suffers Critical Medical Episode At Route 17 Exit SUV Driver Suffers Critical Medical Episode At Route 17 Exit
SUV Driver Suffers Critical Medical Episode At Route 17 Exit A driver whose SUV crashed off Route 17 in Ridgewood Saturday afternoon apparently suffered a medical episode beforehand, responders said. The Kia Sportage came to rest against a wall on the northbound exit ramp to Linwood Avenue around 3 p.m. Responders conducted CPR before the gravely injured driver was brought to The Valley Hospital in Village police, firefighters and EMS and a Valley EMS unit responded.  City Wide towed the vehicle. Boyd A. Loving took the photo and contributed to this account. ****** ALSO SEE: An N95 mask worn by a driver may not have been the r…

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by Jerry DeMarco