Passersby stopped their cars, came running and extricated the 20-year-old driver from Union City after the 2007 Honda Civic crashed at the Main Avenue exit on the westbound highway shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sgt. Robert Anderson said.
Members of the Clifton Fire Department EMS took the passenger to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center with facial injuries that Anderson said weren’t considered life-threatening.
Nutley EMS took the driver to the hospital with a back injury, the sergeant said.
The heavily damaged Civic was towed, he said.
Any summonses or charges were pending an investigation, Anderson said.
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