Tuesday, January 22, 2013
NY Jets coach 'did not deny causing the accident' after allegedly going through red light.
New York Jets head football coach Rex Ryan told authorities he was trying “to beat the light” when he apparently caused a minor three-car crash during the evening rush hour last week in Bethlehem, Pa., police said. The accident occurred at the intersection of Wyandotte and W. Third streets, just south of the Hill-to-Hill Bridge on Jan. 14 at 6:13 p.m. One eyewitness and the driver of one of the other two cars in the crash told police they saw a 2013 red Ford Mustang, which Ryan was driving, go through a red light as it traveled west along W. Third Street, police said. Though police said the investigation remains ongoing, the partially redacted accident report Bethlehem officials released Tuesday said Ryan, a Summit resident, received a …
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
The incident occurred Wednesday morning on the New Jersey Turnpike near the Route 46 overpass, according to state police.
Two people were injured on the New Jersey Turnpike in Fort Lee Wednesday morning, when a tractor-trailer lost a tire, which then bounced across the center divider and hit two oncoming vehicles, state police said. The incident, which occurred at about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday near the Route 46 overpass in Fort Lee, resulted in two “relatively minor injuries considering what could have happened,” said state police spokesman Lt. Stephen Jones. “We had two people complaining of head and neck pain,” Jones said, adding that the victims were taken to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center. “Essentially what happened is the tractor-trailer that lost the tire was in the southbound express lanes,” Jones said. “The vehicles that were struck were both in …
Monday, April 30, 2012
The latest vehicle-pedestrian accident was Friday afternoon at Anderson and Plateau Avenues.
Fort Lee police are once again urging caution after yet another pedestrian was struck by a vehicle in the borough Friday afternoon. The accident, in which the pedestrian suffered only a broken ankle, and neither the driver nor the pedestrian were issued summonses, was the second time last week a driver collided with someone who was walking, the third time such an incident occurred in two weeks and the fifth time in Fort Lee since February, according to police. The latest vehicle-pedestrian accident happened Friday at about 2:30 p.m. near Fort Lee School No. 4 at the intersection of Anderson Avenue and Plateau Avenue. The pedestrian, whom police identified as a 64-year-old Fairview man, was crossing westbound in the crosswalk on Anderson …
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Police urge pedestrians and drivers to be more attentive of their surroundings as the number of accidents in 2012 continue to climb.
A seventy-year old woman was struck by a vehicle on Tuesday as she attempted to cross Fletcher Avenue towards the Linwood Plaza Mall in Fort Lee at approximately 8:37a.m., Tuesday. Kyong Clark, a Fort Lee resident, was walking within the marked crosswalk when 42-year old Peter Gallo from Englewood Cliffs hit her as he was making the left turn out of the plaza onto Fletcher Avenue heading north. According to the police report, Gallo did not see Clark. Fort Lee Police Capt. Roy Bortolus said it was the second accident at the same intersection in a week, making it the fourth pedestrian accidently struck in the Borough since February. “There’s a light there and a ‘Don’t Walk’ [pedestrian] sign with the count down numbers, but sometimes people…
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4:08 am on Saturday, January 26, 2013
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