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Pedestrian Pulls Seriously Injured DWI Driver From Honda After Fiery West Windsor Crash: Police Pedestrian Pulls Seriously Injured DWI Driver From Honda After Fiery West Windsor Crash: Police
Pedestrian Pulls Seriously Injured DWI Driver From Honda After Fiery West Windsor Crash: Police A pedestrian pulled a seriously injured driver from a Honda just moments before the vehicle burst into flames following a drunken crash in West Windsor Tuesday evening, authorities said. The crash occurred just before a curved section of South Mill Road near the intersection with New Edinburg Road around 7:10 p.m., West Windsor police said. Officers say local resident Christopher F. Howard was heading eastbound in a 2011 Honda Accord when the vehicle crossed the center line, veered off the left side of the roadway, and crossed over New Edinburg Road before crashing into a pine tree. A Good…

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by Valerie Musson
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HEROES: Ridgefield Park Officers Rescue Trapped Driver In Burning Car HEROES: Ridgefield Park Officers Rescue Trapped Driver In Burning Car
Heroes: Ridgefield Park Officers Rescue Trapped Driver In Burning Car Flames are rapidly spreading as Ridgefield Park police officers furiously try to pull a trapped Fort Lee driver from his burning sedan, dramatic bodycam video shows. An electrical malfunction ignited the front of 55-year-old Christopher Vagnone’s Honda Accord outside Mavis Discount Tire on Route 46 (Winant Avenue) shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, Police Chief Joseph Rella said. Unable to open the car doors, Sgt. Nicholas Triano retrieved a Halligan bar and smashed the driver’s side window, the chief said. Bodycam footage shows Ridgefield Park police officers pulling a Fort Lee driver f…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Driver, 27, Extricated After Multi-Vehicle Garden State Parkway Pileup Driver, 27, Extricated After Multi-Vehicle Garden State Parkway Pileup
Driver, 27, Extricated After Multi-Vehicle Garden State Parkway Pileup UPDATE: A driver had to be extricated following a pre-dawn multi-vehicle pileup Saturday on the rainy Garden State Parkway in Clifton. The 27-year-old victim was taken to the trauma unit at St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson after his Nissan Sentra overturned in the five-vehicle, chain-reaction crash near Exit 153B around 4:50 a.m. There was no immediate word on other injuries, although his appeared the most serious. Firefighters freed the driver of the overturned Nissan Sentra.CHRIS LEON (Bergen Brookside Auto Body and Towing, Inc.) The vehicle may have been caused by a …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Video Shows NJ Officer Risking His Life On Thanksgiving To Save Driver From Burning Car Video Shows NJ Officer Risking His Life On Thanksgiving To Save Driver From Burning Car
Video Shows NJ Officer Risking His Life On Thanksgiving To Save Driver From Burning Car A heart-stopping video posted by a Middlesex County police department shows an officer running out of his car to rescue a driver from a burning vehicle in a Thanksgiving Day crash. The 3-minute and 40-second dashcam tape shows Monroe Township officer Douglas Perrone jumping out of his vehicle to  Pergola Avenue near Namsan Drive around 8:40 p.m., and running straight to the fully-engulfed Ford Fusion -- the driver trapped inside. Perrone tried using his fire extinguisher to put out the blaze, but when that wasn't working, he climbed inside of the vehicle and pulled the driver from the …

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by Cecilia Levine