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These 19 Clever Road Safety Signs Are Delighting NJ Drivers This Summer
Safe driving is no laughing matter for the New Jersey Department of Transportation. But who's to say they can't have some fun in promoting it? You may have noticed the 19 safety signs rotating across the 224 video message boards across Garden State highways this summer — each one seemingly better than the last (scroll down for a complete list of this season's messages). The NJDOT regularly runs safe driving PSAs to remind motorists of the various behavioral issues such as texting while driving, safe merging, and speeding, all of which contributed to crashes, NJDOT spokeswoman Elizabet…
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Garden State Parkway Crash Jams Area Near Toll Plaza In Union County
A crash on the Garden State Parkway made for heavier than normal delays Sunday, June 23. The accident happened in the southbound lanes, north of Exit 138 in Union Township around 10:45 a.m. Heavy congestion was captured on traffic cameras nearby, specifically surrounding the Union toll plaza.
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Woman Reported Running On Route 17 Struck, Southbound Highway Closed
UPDATE: A woman was clinging to life Saturday after being struck on southbound Route 17 in Ho-Ho-Kus the night before. Several readers told Daily Voice they'd spotted the 27-year-old woman walking along the highway divider as far south as Route 4 in both Paramus and Fair Lawn sometime before the fateful crash around 6 p.m. Nov. 18. "It absolutely scared the living hell out of me to see a lady running in the middle of the highway divider," one said. "There is no reason she have been running near the highway -- let alone on the highway." Reports that the woman had died Friday night were wro…
Police & Fire
Truck Tire Explosion ‘Sends Rubber Flying’ Into Fire Engine As Crews Douse Route 287 Blaze
The back tire of a smoldering truck exploded and hit the responding fire crew’s vehicle on Route 287 in Morris County, authorities said. The Riverdale Fire Department’s incident commander had just arrived at the scene of the blaze in the northbound lanes between Route 23 and the Hamburg Turnpike when one of the smoldering truck’s back tires exploded and “[sent] rubber flying into the side of his vehicle” just after 4:05 p.m. Sunday, the department confirmed on Facebook Thursday. The driver and other on-scene officers were uninjured, as they were not in the “hazard area,” the department said…
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ONE: Tractor-Trailer Jackknifes On Notorious Route 287 Stretch
Yet another tractor-trailer jackknifed on Route 287, jamming traffic again and spilling a large amount of fluid on the highway Thursday morning. No injuries were reported in the mishap, which closed the left and center lanes on the northbound highway in Oakland just after 9:30 a.m. New Jersey State Police responded, along with Oakland police, firefighters and hazardous cleanup units. It was another in a series of crashes that has plagued that stretch of highway for years and brought pleas for relief from area residents who fear someone has to die before the situation is examined and rectif…
Police & Fire
Indian Hills HS Lacrosse Star From Oakland, Long Island Teammate Killed In NC Crash
A former star lacrosse player for Indian Hills High School in Oakland was killed along with a teammate from Long Island in a car crash in North Carolina, authorities said. Ann Wray, a sophomore agribusiness major at the University of Mount Olive, was in a Jeep with six classmates that was t-boned by a dump truck on a two-lane highway in town shortly before 1 a.m. Friday, the North Carolina Highway Patrol reported. Wray and teammate Madison Mergl of Sayville, in Suffolk County, were killed, authorities said. Five other occupants were airlifted to the Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, the…
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: Package That Cleared GWB Was Phony Pipe Bomb, Investigators Say
A suspicious package that closed the George Washington Bridge for more than two hours during Thursday night's rainstorm was actually a phony pipe bomb, Daily Voice has learned. The "inert device" found in the upper level's eastbound lane next to the median on the New Jersey side had a pipe bomb casing -- a symmetrical cylinder with two tied caps at either end -- but not all of the other components necessary to make it explosive, investigators said. Whoever called in the report may have been the person responsible for placing it there, investigators suspect. It was the only call received, …
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State Troopers, Firefighters, Others Hurt In Chain-Reaction Crash On 280 In West Orange
A number of first responders were injured in a chain-reaction crash on Route 280 in West Orange Tuesday morning. Three New Jersey State Police troopers, two West Orange police officers and five township firefighters were among several people injured Tuesday morning when a dump truck plowed into an ambulance, sending it crashing into a fire engine, authorities said. The West Orange police officers and four of the firefighters were treated and released. The fifth firefighter was still hospitalized, a township spokesman said Tuesday night. The spokesman, Joe Fagan, did not know the condi…
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