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Extricated Rockland Driver, Daughter, 2, Hospitalized In Route 287 Flying Tire Crash
A seriously-injured Rockland County driver was flown out by medical chopper and his 2-year-old daughter was also hospitalized following a freak accident Thursday morning, May 6 on Route 287, said NJ State Police, who were seeking witnesses.
A wheel became dislodged from a northbound vehicle, bounded over the median, and crashed into a southbound Ford Fusion in the area of Exit 58 just south of Skyline Drive in Oakland shortly before 8:30 a.m., Trooper Charles Marchan said.
The Ford then struck the center and right barriers before careening into the woods off the highway, he said.
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