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Cement Truck Rolls On Route 208 Cement Truck Rolls On Route 208
Cement Truck Rolls On Route 208 A driver escaped serious injury Thursday morning after his cement truck rolled onto a divider at an entrance to Route 208 in Fair Lawn. The truck was fully loaded and tipping the scale at 70,000 pounds -- as in: 35 tons -- when it tipped on the ramp to the southbound highway from eastbound Fair Lawn Avenue around 9:30 a.m. April 4, according to a representative for Tanis Concrete who was at the scene. The truck was doing about 20 to 25 miles an hour, the employee of the Fair Lawn-based company said. Fair Lawn police officers who arrived first assisted the 51-year-old driver from Jerse…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Obituaries
'Everyone Needs A Billy Hansen In Their Lives': Loved Ones Mourn Bergen Man's Accidental Death 'Everyone Needs A Billy Hansen In Their Lives': Loved Ones Mourn Bergen Man's Accidental Death
'Everyone Needs A Billy Hansen In Their Lives': Loved Ones Mourn Bergen Man's Accidental Death He loved music, especially Motley Crüe and Kiss, as well as his motorcycles, the Knicks and Yankees and his many friends -- including the best of all: his wife, Cindy. A funeral service is scheduled this Monday for William "Billy" Hansen, 61, a popular and beloved Fair Lawn native who succumbed this week to severe injuries he suffered in an accident at Tanis Concrete last week. Hansen, of Elmwood Park, drove a mixer for Tanis for 17 years. He was at the company yard on River Road on April 11 when police said a truck went into gear and rolled over him. Hansen was hospitalized with a broken…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Worker Run Over By Cement Truck At Fair Lawn Concrete Yard Worker Run Over By Cement Truck At Fair Lawn Concrete Yard
Worker Run Over By Cement Truck At Fair Lawn Concrete Yard A man working on a cement truck was injured Tuesday when the vehicle ran over him at Tanis Concrete in Fair Lawn, authorities said. The 62-year-old Elmwood Park resident had his leg rolled over when the truck went into gear in the early afternoon at the River Road site, Fair Lawn Police Sgt. Eric Eleshewich said. Members of the Fair Lawn Volunteer Ambulance Corps took the victim to St. Joseph's University Medical Center in Paterson. The victim's wife told Daily Voice her husband suffered a broken leg, a fractured pelvis and back and major tissue damage. Members of the Fair Lawn Volunt…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Convertible Coupe Slams Into Utility Pole In Fair Lawn Convertible Coupe Slams Into Utility Pole In Fair Lawn
Convertible Coupe Slams Into Utility Pole In Fair Lawn A canary yellow BMW convertible with an Air Jordan logo slammed into a utility pole in Fair Lawn, sending a senior female passenger to the hospital. She and her son told police their M3 had been sideswiped by another car on narrow River Road, across from Tanis Concrete in Fair Lawn shortly after 1 p.m. The woman sustained a wrist injury and was taken to a local hospital by a Bergen County Office of Emergency Management ambulance, police said. The driver's mother was hospitalized with a wrist injury following the crash on River Road in Fair Lawn on Thursday, Feb. 23.Boyd A. Loving The h…

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by Jerry DeMarco