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Update: Paramus Driver, 61, Killed In Horrific Fair Lawn Crash
She was called "an angel with a heart of gold," deeply religious, kind and caring. Now loved ones friends and others who knew Cemile Akguc are mourning her sudden death in a horrific crash in Fair Lawn.
Akguc, 61, of Paramus, "was such a good woman," one of them told Daily Voice. "Read the Bible every day. Went to Bible studies. Spoke Jesus’s word every day."
Responders suspect Akguc suffered a medical episode before her Jeep careened out of control and crashed, killing her, at a busy intersection Monday night.
The Turkish immigrant, who lived several years in Dumont before moving Paramus…
Jersey Shore Driver, 39, Airlifted After New SUV Hits Pole, Rolls On Route 23
A Jersey Shore driver was airlifted after his new SUV hit a utility pole and rolled on Route 23 in West Milford over the weekend.
Brian Kochakji, a 39-year-old finance manager with Mercedes Benz, was headed north on Route 23 when the 2020 Mercedes-AMG GLC43 crashed shortly before 9:30 p.m. Saturday, authorities said.
Kochakji, a former township resident
who lives in Point Pleasant, was brought by ambulance to Echo Lake Ballfield on Germantown Road, police Lt. Thomas Valente said.
AirMed One flew him from there to St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson with serious injuries, Va…
Police: Glen Rock Man Lunges At Hackensack Car Dealer Employee With Knife In Parking Dispute
A Glen Rock trucker who’d taken up two parking spaces pulled a knife and lunged at a Hackensack car dealership employee who asked him to park properly, authorities said.
The worker at Hackensack Nissan on River Street asked Kelvin Mack, 47, to park properly after he took up two spaces with his 2018 Mercedes Benz shortly before 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Police Capt. Darrin DeWitt said.
Mack, who had a handicap placard in his car, “became irate and retrieved a knife,” DeWitt said.
“Mack, with the knife in his hand, threatened to cut the employee and lunged at him,” the captain said.
He got back i…
Photos: Toms River Woman, 34, Airlifted In Union County Garden State Parkway Crash
A 34-year-old Toms River driver was extricated then airlifted to an area trauma center in a Garden State Parkway crash in Clark Monday night, State Police said.
Nicholle May was heading southbound in a Mercedes Benz sedan when her car went off the road to the right at milepost 135.8 around 8:15 p.m., Trooper Alejandro Goez said.
May's car struck several sign posts and an overpass, where it came to a stop, Goez said. She was extricated in a joint effort by the Clark Fire Department, Cranford Fire Department, Rahway MICU, Medic 10 and Cranford First Aid Squad, responders said.
May was airlif…
Rockaway Company's Bus In Fatal PA Crash Had No Passenger Seatbelts, Victims ID'd
The tour bus owned by Rockaway-based Z & D Tours in an early-morning crash that killed five people had no passenger seatbelts, federal officials said Monday.
The bus' driver, Shuang Qing Feng, lost control and hitting a concrete median along the Pennsylvania Turnpike around 3:40 a.m. Sunday, National Transportation Safety Board official Jennifer Homendy said.
The bus shot up an embankment, flipped on its side and then back into the barrier, at which point a FedEx truck slammed into the bus's undercarriage, she said.
Feng, of Queens, N.Y., Eileen Zelis Aria, 35, of The Br…
