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Fair Lawn-Glen Rock, NJ
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Hydrant Knocked Down In Head-On Glen Rock Crash
At least one victim was hospitalized following a Saturday afternoon head-on crash on a busy Glen Rock street. A fire hydrant was knocked off its foundation when two sedans collided at the intersection of Berkeley Place and Rock Road. Several injuries were reported and a related summons issued, police said, adding that none of the injuries appeared life-threatening. Fire hydrant knocked from its base in Glen Rock.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Glen Rock EMS took one of the injured to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. Both vehicles were towed. Firefighters cleaned up a large fuel spill…
Ridgewood, NJ
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Backhoe Hits Overpass, Topples Onto Route 17
A backhoe towed on a trailer hit an overpass and fell onto southbound Route 17 in Ridgewood early Wednesday afternoon. A woman's vehicle was damaged, but no serious injuries were reported following the mishap at the Linwood Avenue overpass around 1:15 p.m. Police initially stopped all traffic on the southbound highway before opening a lane. Village firefighters responded to clean up a fuel spill and a state Department of Transportation was summoned to inspect the bridge. One lane was open to traffic on southbound Route 17 in Ridgewood.Boyd A. Loving for DAILY VOICE Meanwhile, police a…
Bristol, PA
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Fiery Tractor-Trailer Crash Closes Route 663
Route 663 was closed Monday in Bucks County following an early-morning fiery crash that involving an overturned tractor-trailer and one other vehicle. The tractor trailer apparently hit the guardrail and collided with another car that landed in the medium at Hickory Drive around 5:45 a.m., eyewitness Ashleigh Gribble Simmons told Daily Voice. The site remained closed at 12 p.m., Daily Voice has learned. Bystanders were removing the trailer driver as the other vehicle burned, initial reports say. Fuel tanks ripped from the truck blocked access to the damaged car, initial reports said…
Pascack Valley, NJ
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Rockland Couple's SUV Tumbles Into Brook Between Shopping Center, High School In Montvale
A pair of Rockland County grandparents escaped serious injury when their SUV barreled over an embankment and into a brook Saturday afternoon at a shopping center in Montvale, authorities said. The husband apparently hit the gas instead of the brake pulling into a handicapped parking space in the parking lot of the Fresh Market bordering St. Joseph Regional High School on Chestnut Ridge Road Police Chief Joseph Sanfilippo said. That sent their Lincoln into a brook between the two properties, he said. Both were taken to the Valley Hospital with minor injuries, the chief said. A tow truck rem…
Jersey City, NJ
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Disabled Trailers Cause Backups On Major Parsippany, Kearny Highways
A pair of disabled tractor trailers backed up two major North Jersey highways Tuesday evening. The jackknifed trailer and fuel spill in on the northbound side of Route 287 happened when the truck struck a pillar to the overpass around 7 p.m., near milepost 42.1. Five to 10 minute delays were reported. Meanwhile, a disabled trailer took out the center lane in the NJ Turnpike Western Spur southbound near the 15W - Route 280 interchange. Disabled tractor trailer on New Jersey Turnpike - Western Spur southbound South of Interchange 15W - I-280 (Kearny) center lane blocked https://t.co/WM…
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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Another Tractor-Trailer Crashes Off Route 287
A tractor-trailer rolled off Route 287 and down an embankment before dawn Friday. It was another in a series of crashes that has plagued that stretch of highway for years. The System Freight rig out of Jamesburg rolled off the northbound highway near Exit 59 to southbound Route 208 in Oakland at 4:25 a.m., New Jersey State Police Trooper Alejandro Goez said. The right and center lanes remained closed as a pair of heavy-duty wreckers from DeFalco's in Chatham pulled it from the trees after sunrise, he said. Traffic remained backed up for miles past mid-morning. The driver was taken to Ha…
Mahwah-Ramsey, NJ
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Tractor-Trailer Tips On Flyover At NJ/NY Border
A tractor-trailer driver was injured when his rig tipped Wednesday afternoon on a notorious flyover near the Bergen/Rockland border. Police summoned firefighters to tend to a fuel spill following the crash on northbound Route 17 to the Route 287 ramp in Mahwah around 5:15 p.m. The stretch regularly has been the scene of crashes, many involving tractor-trailers. Witnesses said the driver’s injuries didn’t appear serious.
Elizabeth, NJ
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Massive Route 1&9 Tanker Fire Severely Burns Trucker, Guts Home
A trucker was badly burned when his tanker burst into flames after it was struck by another vehicle Friday night at a gas station off Route 1&9 in Elizabeth, responders said. Massive flames from the fully-involved truck fire at the BP station near Bayway Circle spread to and gutted a nearby two-family home on South Elmora Avenue around 8:30 p.m. Nine people -- three of them children -- reportedly were displaced. The trucker was taken to Saint Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston. Two other vehicles, as well as traffic lights and wires, were destroyed or damaged in the three-alarm b…
Wyckoff-Franklin Lakes, NJ
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: Car Carrier Splits, Topples Across Route 287, Dump Truck Rolls On Opposite Side
A car carrier and a dump truck both toppled over on Route 287 in Oakland around noontime Friday, closing several lanes and causing major delays well into the afternoon. Five heavy-duty wreckers were called to clear the roadway after the northbound rig hauling SUVs tipped over the divider. The carrier split in two, with one section landing on its side against the divider, dumping one of the SUVs on the other side of the median. The other half ended up on its side, as well, in the right lane. A dump truck that tried to avoid the wreck tipped onto a railing in the right lane. A dump tr…
Paterson, NJ
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Septic Tank Truck Tips On Route 80 Exit
A driver emerged without serious injury after an empty septic tanker tipped over Friday on a Route 80 exit ramp in Paterson. A hazardous materials unit was summoned for a large fuel spill after the 9:30 a.m. mishap at Exit 60 on the highway's eastbound side. The exit was closed while heavy-duty wreckers from Tumino's Towing righted the rig.
Somers, NY
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Tow Operators Come To Rescue After Tractor-Trailer Hangs Off I-95 In Westchester Crash
Three tow operators saved the day for a Westchester neighborhood by preventing a tractor-trailer hanging off an overpass from falling onto their homes. The incident took place around 12:45 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 27, when a tractor-trailer driver lost control and flipped over on I-95 in New Rochelle. The rain was pouring down the wind was howling the tractor-trailer hung 60-feet in the air above homes below, said Anthony Paniccia Jr., of Vincent's Service Station. Paniccia, along with Felix Hughes and Danny Consigliere, arrived on the scene to find the tractor-trailer blocking all lanes of t…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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One Person Seriously Injured In I-80 Morris County Crash
One person escaped a multi-vehicle crash on I-80 in Rockaway Township with serious injuries Wednesday morning, authorities said. New Jersey State Police responded to the accident on eastbound side of the highway near the Rockaway Townsquare Mall around 7:20 a.m., just west of Exit 35. The Hazardous Materials Response Unit also responded for a fuel spill, police say. The highway was reopened in time for rush hour.
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