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Head-On Crash: Utility Pole Snapped, Transformer Lands In Truck And Driver's OK In Fair Lawn Head-On Crash: Utility Pole Snapped, Transformer Lands In Truck And Driver's OK In Fair Lawn
Head-On Crash: Utility Pole Snapped, Transformer Lands In Truck And Driver's OK In Fair Lawn A driver somehow escaped serious injury in Fair Lawn on Thursday when his box truck skimmed a tree, bowled over four street signs and slammed flush into a utility pole, snapping it clean in half. Not only did the upper section of the streetlight pole land on top of the truck in the collision on Lincoln Avenue near Loretto Avenue around 1:30 p.m. July 27. The transformer also fell through the roof into the cargo area (see photo above). The driver told police a car cut in front of him, prompting him to swerve and lose control of the Pattman Plumbing truck from Midland Park. The driver t…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Freak Accident: Englewood Crash Brings Utility Pole Down On Second Vehicle, Two Extricated Freak Accident: Englewood Crash Brings Utility Pole Down On Second Vehicle, Two Extricated
Freak Accident: Englewood Crash Brings Utility Pole Down On Second Vehicle, Two Extricated An overnight crash in Englewood on Sunday pulled down three utility poles, one of which struck another vehicle behind the first one, authorities said. A Lexus wagon driven north by a 57-year-old Elmwood Park woman struck a pole on northbound Grand Avenue at the Linden Avenue intersection around 3:15 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Gregory Halstead said.The pole pulled down two others with it as it toppled, he said.  One of the poles hit a Toyota Rav 4, also heading north, occupied by a 42-year-old Connecticut man and a 21-year-old Englewood man, Halstead said. City firefighters freed two of the…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
UPDATE: 12 Victims Hospitalized In Hillside Senior Citizen Bus Crash UPDATE: 12 Victims Hospitalized In Hillside Senior Citizen Bus Crash
Update: 12 Victims Hospitalized In Hillside Senior Citizen Bus Crash A dozen people were hospitalized with what were characterized as minor injuries after a car rear-ended a bus in Hillside Thursday, sending it into a utility pole. A Hyundai Sonata traveling on Long Avenue apparently blew a stop sign and rear-ended a Hillside Senior Citizen bus that was headed south on Central Avenue just before 9:30 a.m., authorities said. The impact sent the bus into a utility pole, toppling it and downing wires. CHECK BACK FOR DETAILS

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by Cecilia Levine