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Woman Ticketed After Bicyclist Injured In Route 9W Crash
A driver from Westchester County was ticketed after she struck and injured a 42-year-old bicyclist, authorities said. The bicyclist was hit on Route 9W by the Toyota Corolla in Bergen County at Palisades Interstate Parkway Exit 4 shortly after 3 p.m. Sunday, June 11, Alpine Acting Police Chief Matthew S. Kent said. Members of the Closter Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Corps took the bicyclist to Hackensack University Medical Center with face and back pain, the chief said. The driver, a 79-year-old resident of Ardsley, was unharmed. She received a summons for failing to stop, Kent said.
Police & Fire
Update
: Rescued Bergen Driver Loses Leg, Survives Fiery Crash On Palisades Interstate Parkway
A 52-year-old Bergen County driver lost a leg but survived a fiery crash Sunday night thanks to two good Samaritans and the Palisades Interstate Parkway police. A passing NYPD captain and a security guard got the Demarest driver and her 29-year-old passenger, also of Demarest, out of the vehicle after it rolled on the northbound parkway between Exits 1 and 2 shortly before 11:30 p.m., Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. The responding PIP police officers, Sgt. Martin Clancy and Officer Elizabeth Santos, applied a tourniquet to the driver, saving her lif…
Police & Fire
Update
: Rescued Bergen Driver Loses Leg, Survives Fiery Crash On Palisades Interstate Parkway
A 52-year-old Bergen County driver lost her leg but survived a fiery crash Sunday night thanks to two good Samaritans and the Palisades Interstate Parkway police. A passing NYPD captain and a security guard got the Demarest driver and her 29-year-old passenger, also of Demarest, out of the vehicle after it rolled on the northbound parkway between Exits 1 and 2 shortly before 11:30 p.m., Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Sgt. First Class Raymond Walter said. The responding PIP police officers, Sgt. Martin Clancy and Officer Elizabeth Santos, applied a tourniquet to the driver, saving her l…
Police & Fire
Palisades Parkway PD, Rockland Responders Team Up For Cliff, River Saves
Responders rescued a woman who passed out on the Palisades while hiking with her teenage son above the Hudson River – one of two cliffside saves and a water rescue that occurred hours apart near the New Jersey/New York border. The woman was “diabetic, exhausted, dehydrated and vomiting” when Palisades Interstate Parkway police found her and her 15-year-old son shortly after 2 p.m. Sunday in the area of the Great Stairs more than 150 feet above the river in Alpine, PIPPD Sgt. First Class Raymond E. Walter said. She passed out as they administered lifesaving first aid, he said. The Piermont …
Police & Fire
Motorcyclist, 31, Killed In PIP Crash
UPDATE: A 31-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a Saturday afternoon crash on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Alpine, authorities said. Civilians at the scene began first aid and CPR on the Brooklyn victim after his motorcycle struck a railing on the southbound Exit 4 ramp shortly before 3 p.m., PIP Police Lt. Jock Watkins Jr. said. PIP police officers used a defibrillator before responding paramedics from Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, Rockland County, Closter Volunteer Ambulance and Rescue Corps and the South Orangetown Ambulance Corps took over patient care, he said. The vi…
Police & Fire
11 Hospitalized, Several Serious, After Van Slams Head-On Into Tree Near NJ/Rockland Border
Several people were seriously injured when a passenger van headed toward Rockland County slammed head-on into a tree on the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Alpine before dawn Sunday, sending 11 victims in all to the hospital, responders said. None of the injuries appeared life-threatening, however, PIP Police Officer-In-Charge Lt. Jock Watkins Jr. said. The 14-passenger Ford E350 passenger van was carrying a group of Hasidic adults and children when the veered off the roadway and hit the 24-inch tree dead center around 2:45 a.m. near Exit 3 of the northbound highway. Occupants told po…