Driver Hospitalized After SUV Narrowly Misses Bus Shelter, Slams Into Tree On Route 17

A driver was hospitalized with chest pains following a pre-dawn single-vehicle crash Friday on rain-soaked Route 17.

The SUV narrowly missed taking out a bus shelter but ran over a sign and then slammed into a tree on southbound Route 17 just past Hollywood Avenue in Ho-Ho-Kus shortly before 6:30 a.m. Oct. 20.
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE*

Citywide Towing removed the severely damaged SUV on a flatbed.
Photo Credit: *Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE*

10/20/2023 11:19 a.m.

The SUV narrowly missed taking out a bus shelter but ran over a sign and then slammed into a tree on the highway's southbound side just past Hollywood Avenue in Ho-Ho-Kus shortly before 6:30 a.m. Oct. 20.

The driver was taken to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood.

The wreckage was removed on a Citywide Towing flatbed.

Ho-Ho-Kus police, firefighters and Volunteer Ambulance Corps all responded along with an EMS unit from Valley.

Boyd A. Loving took the photos and contributed to this story.

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