Sunday, January 13, 2013
A Fort Lee man died in the hospital Saturday night about four-and-a-half hours after getting hit by a car while he was trying to cross Anderson Avenue between Jane Street and Catherine Street, according to authorities.
A 65-year-old Fort Lee man died Saturday night after getting hit by a car on Anderson Avenue, police said. At about 5:15 p.m. Saturday, police received calls saying a pedestrian had been struck near the exit of the Church of the Madonna. Officers from the Fort Lee Police Department’s Patrol Division and Detective Bureau responded, conducting an on-scene investigation, which concluded that Gerard A. Deangelis was hit by a 1999 Toyota Corolla while attempting to cross Anderson between Jane and Catherine Streets, police said. Paramedics treated the victim at the scene, and the Fort Lee Ambulance Corps transported him to Hackensack University Medical Center with what police described as life-threatening injuries. But Deangelis died at the …
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Anderson Ave & Jane St, Fort Lee, NJ
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Anderson Ave & Catherine St, Fort Lee, NJ
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The 87-year-old driver was ticketed Tuesday after she ran into a woman and her three-year-old child in a crosswalk at Center Avenue and Whiteman Street, police said.
A Palisades Park woman and a three-year-old child suffered minor injuries Tuesday afternoon when they were hit by a car driven by an 87-year-old Fort Lee woman at the intersection of Center Avenue and Whiteman Street, according to police. The pedestrian and the child were in the crosswalk, crossing west on Center Avenue at about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday when they were both struck by a 2004 Lexus ES travelling east on Whiteman and making a left turn onto Center, police said. The collision caused the woman and child to “land on the hood of the vehicle,” according to Fort Lee police, who also said the adult pedestrian and witnesses to the accident told them the 87-year-old driver did not yield to the two while they were in the crosswalk. “The driver…
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Center Ave & Whiteman St, Fort Lee, NJ
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
Palisades Park woman suffers a lacerated elbow after getting hit by a car at Anderson Avenue and Main Street on the evening of the 4th of July.
A Palisades Park woman who suffered minor injuries after getting hit by a car at Anderson Avenue and Main Street Wednesday evening became the 36th pedestrian struck by a vehicle in Fort Lee this year alone, police said. The 46-year-old woman was crossing Anderson from the southwest to the southeast corner “in a marked crosswalk,” according to police, when she was hit by a car traveling west on Main Street and making a left turn onto Anderson. The collision knocked the victim down; in the process of falling, she hit her left elbow on the curb and suffered a laceration, police said. The Fort Lee Ambulance Corps transported the woman to Holy Name Medical Center for treatment, according to police. “It wasn’t [a serious injury], but the driver …
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Main St & Anderson Ave, Fort Lee, NJ
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Saturday, May 19, 2012
The 92-year-old woman badly injured Friday at Whiteman Plaza died early Saturday morning at the hospital
A Fort Lee woman who was struck Friday by a car that was backing up in the parking lot at Whiteman Plaza has died from her injuries, authorities said. Ja Sung Roh, 92, of Fort Lee, died at Hackensack University Medical Center at about 4:15 a.m. Saturday, police said. The Bergen County Medical Examiner’s Office was notified, according to police. Capt. Keith Bendul of the Fort Lee Police Department told Patch the investigation into the accident continues, but that “at this point, there’s no indication of any violation of criminal law.” “The driver is cooperating and naturally, obviously upset,” Bendul said of 42-year-old Michael Arabia, of Hawthorne, who was ticketed for careless driving. Less than 12 hours after that accident, another …
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1605 Lemoine Ave, Fort Lee, NJ
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Columbia Ave & Anderson Ave, Fort Lee, NJ
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Friday, May 18, 2012
A 92-year-old Fort Lee woman was walking in the parking lot of Whiteman Plaza when she was struck by a car Friday; she was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, authorities said.
A Fort Lee woman was hospitalized in critical condition Friday with what police described as “life-threatening injuries” after being hit by a car that was backing up in the parking lot of the Whiteman Plaza Shopping Center on Lemoine Avenue, authorities said. Fort Lee police received “numerous 911 calls” of a pedestrian struck at 1605 Lemoine Ave. shortly after the accident, which occurred at 12:34 p.m. Friday, police said. Officers from the Fort Lee Police Department’s Patrol Division, Detective Bureau and Traffic Bureau responded to the scene, as did the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Fatal Accident Investigation Unit, police said. On-scene investigators concluded that Ja Sung Roh, 92, of Fort Lee, was hit by a 2007 black Saab driven …
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1605 Lemoine Ave, Fort Lee, NJ
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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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Anderson Ave & Plateau Ave, Fort Lee, NJ
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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…
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
The collision Monday morning was the second serious accident involving pedestrians in two days.
An elderly Fort Lee woman was injured Monday when she was hit by an SUV backing out of a driveway on Edwin Avenue in Fort Lee, police said. Mary A. Hickey, 86, of Fort Lee, was walking north on Edwin at about 9:11 a.m. Monday, when she was struck by a 2010 Nissan Rogue driven by 29-year-old Arbnore Tafila, who was backing out of her own driveway, according to Fort Lee police. “Mrs. Hickey was injured in the collision and transported to Hackensack University Medical Center Emergency Room,” according to a statement released by the Fort Lee Police Department. Police said Tuesday morning that Hickey is listed in critical condition, but that the extent of her injuries was unknown. An accident investigation by the Fort Lee Police Department …
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2030 Edwin Ave, Fort Lee, NJ
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Monday, February 27, 2012
A Fort Lee woman died Sunday after being struck by a car; police say the driver is not being charged.
A Fort Lee woman died Sunday from injuries suffered after getting hit by a car while crossing Lemoine Avenue at Whiteman Street, police said. Helen Norton, 63, of Fort Lee, was struck by a 2010 Mercedes Benz driven by 66-year-old Joseph A. Dellaquila of Englewood Cliffs at about 6:15 p.m. Sunday, according to Fort Lee police. Dellaquila was traveling north on Lemoine Avenue in the left lane when he struck Norton. Police said Norton was “gravely injured” in the collision, and that the Cliffside Park Ambulance Corps transported her to Hackensack Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 8:54 p.m. An investigation into the accident by members of the Fort Lee Police Accident Investigation Unit continues, but no charges are currently …
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Lemoine Ave & Whiteman St, Fort Lee, NJ
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Barbara LeBow
9:15 pm on Friday, January 25, 2013
Anderson and Jane is not a bridge issue. We can't blame everything on the bridge. Bad driving and carelessness are the issues at hand here. We barely a month into 2013 and already there are 3 pedestrians hit and one killed in pedestrian vs car altercations. When is this going to stop? Don't blame the bridge put the blame where it belongs on carelessness and a lack of enforcement. more ›