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PIP Fatal: Rollover Crash On NJ Side Kills Rockland County Driver
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…
Police & Fire
New Update:Woman Dies After Being Struck In ShopRite Parking Lot By Driver From Rockland
A woman died from injuries sustained after being struck by an SUV being operated by a Hudson Valley resident in the parking lot of a ShopRite in northern New Jersey on Labor Day, sources tell Daily Voice. The incident happened in Bergen County in the parking lot of the Route 4 supermarket just after 1 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 4. The victim, a 77-year-old from Hackensack. was rushed to Hackensack University Medical Center after she was hit by the 81-year-old Rockland County resident, a man from Tappan, driving a Cadillac Escalade, Paramus Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. Earlier report: T…
Police & Fire
Rockland County Resident Ticketed After Woman Struck, Severely Injured In ShopRite Parking Lot
A Hudson Valley resident was ticketed after a woman was knocked unconscious by an SUV in the parking lot of a ShopRite in northern New Jersey. New update: Woman Dies After Being Struck In ShopRite Parking Lot By Driver From Hudson Valley The incident happened around 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 4 in Bergen County in the lot of the eastbound Route 4 supermarket in Paramus. The 77-year-old Hackensack woman was unresponsive after being struck by a Cadillac Escalade, Paramus Police Chief Robert Guidetti said. Police and members of Paramus EMS arrived and attempted life-saving measures before she …
Police & Fire
Gruesome Injuries Suffered By Rockland Man Knocked Over Route 17 Median
A man from Rockland County who was struck trying to cross a stretch of Route 17 suffered a gruesome fate, responders revealed. Both his lower left leg and part of his right foot were amputated after he was knocked over the highway divider, they said. The 66-year-old Suffern resident was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center after the tragic mishap shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 28, Ramsey Police Chief Brian M. Lyman said. "The initial investigation reveals the pedestrian was attempting to cross the highway and was on, or near, the center divider when he was struck by a 4-do…
Police & Fire
Fast-Acting Police Officer Rescues Area Driver From Fiery Wreck
A fast-acting police officer responding to a crash dragged an unconscious Rockland County driver to safety moments before the man's minivan went up in flames. The minivan had slammed into a utility pole in New Jersey, splitting it at the base, on East Saddle River Road south of Lake Street just after midnight Thursday, Upper Saddle River Police Capt. Edward Kane said. The engine block was already starting to cook when Officer Tim Erstling arrived, Kane said. Erstling immediately pulled the 29-year-old driver from Pomona out and away from the minivan, the captain said. "Minutes later, the …
Police & Fire
Rockland Couple Hospitalized In PIP Crash
A Rockland man and woman were hospitalized after their sedan crashed off the southbound Palisades Interstate Parkway in Alpine, New Jersey on Saturday, Oct. 2, authorities said. Responding officers found the West Haverstraw victims out of their 2018 Audi A4, which crashed into several trees and rocks on the center media near Exit 2 around 11 a.m., Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Sgt. First Class Raymond E. Walter said. The 52-year-old male driver had the more serious injuries -- including head trauma and chest pain -- when he and his 65-year-old passenger were taken to the trauma unit …
Police & Fire
Rockland Scooter Driver Airlifted, Passenger Taken By Ambulance After Crash
A Rockland man was airlifted to the hospital after he and a female passenger were struck riding a scooter in Northvale, New Jersey. The 48-year-old victim from Piermont was heading north on Livingston Street around 10:30 p.m. when the driver of a sedan made a left into the Citgo gas station and hit the Vespa, Borough of Northvale Police Chief Howard J. Ostrow said. Air Med 1 flew him to Hackensack University Medical Center with traumatic injuries after landing at John L. Hogan Memorial Park. His female passenger was taken to the hospital by ambulance, Ostrow said. The sedan driver, a 40-y…
Police & Fire
Rockland Patron Assaults Old Tappan Restaurant Employee Over Request For Water, Police Say
A Rockland man surrendered to police who charged him with beating a worker at a Bergen County Italian restaurant, authorities said. Luca Saggio, 46, of Stony Point, asked the passing Bosfa Restaurant employee for water and didn’t like the response, witnesses told responding officers, Old Tappan Police Chief Joseph J. Tracy said. Saggio then “followed the employee into the kitchen of the restaurant and punched him in the head,” Tracy said. The employee suffered “a significant injury to his eye and head area,” the chief said. Responding officers rendered medical aid before an Old Tappan Amb…
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Sullivan County Man Hospitalized After Head-On Crash In NJ
A Jeep driven by a drunk Yonkers man was doing 106 miles an hour when it crashed head-on into a sedan in Passaic County, New Jersey, authorities said. Derrick Valerio, age 33, was headed in the wrong direction on Greenwood Lake Turnpike when his 2021 Grand Cherokee slammed into a 2003 Infiniti I35 in a 45-mile-per-hour zone near Stonetown Road in Ringwood on Monday, July 5, they said. A passenger in the Infiniti, 22-year-old Riley Lindholm of Rock Hill in Sullivan County, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with serious injuries, Passaic County Prosecutor Came…
Police & Fire
Driver Of Airborne Mini Cooper That Slammed Into Minivan On Route 17 Identified, Charged
Authorities identified the driver of a speeding Mini Cooper that flew into a minivan on Route 17, critically injuring its driver, as a 33-year-old warehouse worker from Hudson County, New Jersey. Witnesses told police that Christopher Macias of Guttenberg was racing the driver of another vehicle – believed to be a Camaro – when he failed to negotiate the exit ramp to Hoboken Road on the southbound highway shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The other vehicle kept going, they said. Macias’s Mini Cooper hit the grass triangle median separating …
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Mini Cooper Goes Airborne, Slams Into Minivan On Route 17, Leaves Other Driver Gravely Injured
UPDATE: Authorities identified the driver of a speeding Mini Cooper that flew into a minivan on Route 17, critically injuring an Orange County driver, as a 33-year-old warehouse worker. Witnesses told police that Christopher Macias of Guttenberg, NJ was racing the driver of another vehicle – believed to be a Camaro – when he failed to negotiate the exit ramp to Hoboken Road on the southbound highway shortly before 1 p.m. Tuesday, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said. The other vehicle kept going, they said. Macias’s Mini Cooper hit the grass triangle median separating the exit and e…
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Covid-
19: Many Non-Hospitalized Virus Survivors Face Lingering Health Risks, New Study Shows
Some Americans who contracted cases of COVID-19 may not have been hospitalized, but could face potential long-term health risks, a new study has found. In a study published this week in the journal Nature, researchers who looked at more than 73,000 people across the country who were positive for COVID-19 but never hospitalized found that some of those cases could potentially increase the risk of death or chronic medical conditions. The study found that between one and six months after becoming infected, those patients had a significantly greater risk of death - up to 60 percent higher - tha…
Police & Fire
Route 17 Crash: Rockland Driver Was Drunk, Had THC Products For Sale, Bergen Prosecutor Says
A 22-year-old Rockland County man was intoxicated when his speeding sports car slammed into a tractor-trailer in a horrific overnight crash on Route 17 in Paramus over the weekend, authorities said. Davil LaFontant, of Nanuet, was charged with aggravated assault, assault by auto, and drug possession in the crash, which injured him and a 20-year-old female passenger, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Wednesday, April 21. LaFontant, who’s unemployed, plowed a 2019 Dodge Charger into the side of an Amazon Prime rig that was parked on the right shoulder of northbound Route 17 in front…
Police & Fire
Rockland Man Provides Tip Leading To Charge In Fatal Hit-Run Crash
UPDATE: Sometimes sharing stories really does make a difference. A Daily Voice reader who saw a story shared in a Rockland Facebook group about the search for a hit-and-run vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Paramus provided the tip that led to the capture of the accused driver. The tipster said he suspected the damaged Ford brought into an auto body shop in Congers was the same one mentioned in a Daily Voice story about the search for the fleeing driver who killed the 58-year-old woman as she walked along a local road early Thursday. So he notified authorities. Detectives from the …
Police & Fire
Motorcyclist Injured In Route 17 Crash
A New York motorcyclist survived an overnight crash on Route 17 in Waldwick, authorities said. The 52-year-old Orange County resident from Middletown victim lost control of the motorcycle on the northbound highway just north of Sheridan Avenue shortly before 2 a.m., Police Chief Mark Messner said. “No other vehicles were involved and at that time and the conditions were clear and dry,” Messner said. The rider “was alert and conscious the entire time but did suffer lacerations to his leg and knee and a fair amount of road rash,” the chief said. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical…
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…
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Two New Coronavirus Cases Confirmed In NYC, NJ Has First Case
Two more cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed in New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday morning, March 5. The two reportedly are a woman in her 80s and man in his 40s. Three New York City residents have no been diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus. The first case in the state was diagnosed in Manhattan, a 39-year-old woman who is employed as a healthcare worker and had recently returned from Iran. She is recovering at home where she's been quarantined with her husband, whose test came back negative. The other 10 confirmed cases in New York State are …
Police & Fire
Update
: Montvale Pedestrian, 55, Struck At NJ/NY Border Dies
A 55-year-old pedestrian who was struck Friday night at the Rockland County border in Montvale died of her injuries, authorities confirmed. Responders found the Montvale resident in cardiac arrest, bleeding from a traumatic head wound, in the northbound lane of Chestnut Ridge Road a little more than 50 yards from the border, Police Chief Joseph Sanfilippo said. She'd been struck in the southbound lane by a 2016 Chevy Malibu driven by a 63-year-old Garfield man shortly before 8:30 p.m., the chief said. The area is a dark stretch of road with no sidewalks. Montvale police and Tri-Boro EMTs …
Police & Fire
Update
: Pedestrian, 55, Struck At NJ/NY Border Dies
A 55-year-old pedestrian who was struck Friday night at the Rockland County border in Montvale died of her injuries, authorities confirmed. Responders found the Montvale resident in cardiac arrest, bleeding from a traumatic head wound, in the northbound lane of Chestnut Ridge Road a little more than 50 yards from the border, Police Chief Joseph Sanfilippo said. She'd been struck in the southbound lane by a 2016 Chevy Malibu driven by a 63-year-old Garfield man shortly before 8:30 p.m., the chief said. The area is a dark stretch of road with no sidewalks. Montvale police and Tri-Boro EMTs …
Police & Fire
Rockland Trucker Ticketed In Route 17 Crash That Killed Motorcyclist
The Rockland County driver of a garbage truck that struck and killed a 52-year-old motorcyclist from Hasbrouck Heights on Route 17 on Monday was issued summonses for careless driving and failure to observe road signals, authorities said. Although no criminal charges were immediately filed, an investigation into the death Monday of Nuri Kaloshi was continuing, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said Tuesday. Jonathan D. Lacher, 50, of Nanuet was driving the truck that collided with Kaloshi’s Kawasaki ZX-14 motorcycle on southbound Route 17 as it turned onto the highway from westbound Fra…
Police & Fire
Rockland Boy, 6, Who Fell 25 Feet At Bergen Rock Climbing Center Airlifted To Hospital
UPDATE: A 6-year-old Rockland boy was hospitalized after falling 25 feet from a rock climbing wall at a Bergen County recreational facility at the New Jersey/New York border, authorities said. AirMed One flew the boy to Hackensack University Medical Center after landing at Hogan Park, less than a mile from High Exposure Rock Climbing, Ninja Warrior, Nerf and Parkour on Union Street in Northvale on Saturday, they said. The youngster was released from HUMC within 24 hours and was resting comfortably at home, Northvale Police Chief Howard Ostrow said. Northvale firefighters and Norwood EMS as…
Police & Fire
Man, 38, Struck Twice On Route 4 After Fight With Girlfriend Dies
UPDATE: A Dutchess County, NY man who was killed when he was struck by two vehicles on Route 4 in Paramus deliberately walked into traffic, witnesses said. One witness was getting gas at the BP station next to the McDonald's on the highway's westbound side moments before 9 p.m. Saturday. "My husband was inside the [gas station] store when the man walked over from McDonald's with a blank stare on this face," she told Daily Voice. Ryan O’Keefe, 36, of Wappingers Falls, NY man had been fighting with his girlfriend both inside and outside the McDonald's, near the highway's Forest Avenue exit, …
News
South Nyack Police Officer Ejected From Motorcycle At Gran Fondo Race
A local police officer on his way to help a massive bike race was taken to the hospital after being ejected from his motorcycle in Alpine, New Jersey. Mark Acker, 59, of the South Nyack Police Department, landed on the center median of the southbound side of the Palisades Interstate Parkway near his overturned motorcycle around 6:20 a.m. Sunday, PIP police said. Related story: Deer Hits Bicyclist During Popular Road Race Acker, a motorcycle officer from Rockland County, was assigned to assist with the Gran Fondo Bicycle Race. He was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center …
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Man Struck By Spring Valley-Bound PVL Train Seriously Injured
A man was was hospitalized with serious injuries after being struck by a train in Westwood, NJ Transit officials said. The incident occurred around 8:15 p.m. Friday evening and involved a train on the Pascack Valley Line, NJ Transit spokeswoman Kate Thompson told Daily Voice. The train had departed from Hoboken at 7:21 p.m., and was scheduled to arrive in Spring Valley at 8:40 p.m., she said. The man was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with unspecified injuries, Thompson said None of the 50 train passengers or crew members on the train were injured. Rail ser…
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…
Police & Fire
Rapper Post Malone's Jet Blows Tires, Diverted To Stewart Airport
After spending nearly 5 hours in the air burning fuel, a jet that blew two tires after taking off from Teterboro carrying rapper Post Malone and 15 other people Tuesday morning landed safely at New York's Stewart Airport in Orange County around 3:50 p.m. A fleet of ambulances and other responders -- including an AirMed One medical chopper from Hackensack University Medical Center -- were lined up on the tarmac but weren't needed as the plane touched down safely. The London-bound Gulfstream IV blew its two left front tires after takeoff from Teterboro around 10:40 a.m. The pilot originally …
Lifestyle
Girls' Cancer In Remission After Undergoing New Therapy In Bergen
Olivia Viscogliosi is a curious, outgoing and very active 3-year-old. But, earlier this year, her parents were concerned about her future. At the age of 2, Olivia, of Harrison, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a rare form of the disease. “There was a time when Olivia had a lot going on and we were constantly watching every single tiny movement she would make and constantly worrying about the next thing that was going to happen or complication with her illness,” said Dory Viscogliosi, Olivia’s mother. “She is so energetic now. We have a 3-year-old who likes to play. A big …
Police & Fire
Driver Hospitalized After Tree Falls On Mercedes In Bergen
A falling tree limb cracked the windshield on a Mercedes Benz that had just exited Route 208 northbound in Glen Rock Sunday afternoon, sending the driver to the hospital with non life-threatening head injuries. The SUV's adult male driver was transported by Glen Rock EMS to Hackensack University Medical Center from De Boer Drive. A paramedic team from The Valley Hospital assisted Glen Rock EMTs with patient evaluation. The driver was the only occupant in the Mercedes when the tree limb hit it. The Glen Rock police and fire departments also responded to the incident. A flatbed tow truck …
Police & Fire
NY Man ID'd As Victim Of Fatal NJ Turnpike Crash
A New York City man was killed in a chain reaction crash Wednesday after the pickup he was riding in was rear-ended by a garbage truck, said the New Jersey State Police. Zhen Dong Wang, 50, of Brooklyn, a passenger in a Dodge Ram, was killed when the vehicle was rear-ended by the garbage truck in the southbound lanes near mile marker 114.8 on the New Jersey Turnpike in Carlstadt, Trooper Alejandro Goez said. Following the first crash, the pickup was then rear-ended by a Honda Accord and a Lexus RX, according to Goez. Wang died at the scene. The driver of the pickup was also seriously injur…
Police & Fire
Kids OK After Mini-Cooper Rear-Ends School Bus On Route 4 In Hackensack
A group of youngsters on a school bus involved in a multi-vehicle crash Monday morning on westbound Route 4 in Hackensack were hospitalized as a precaution, responders said. None of the children on the White Plains Bus Company vehicle out of Westchester appeared seriously injured but were being taken to Hackensack University Medical Center to be completely checked out. It wasn't immediately clear where the youngsters are from. The driver of the Mini-Cooper, part of which slid under the school bus, was hospitalized with serious injuries, responders said. Two occupants of a minivan that hi…
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