Photo credit:Boyd A. Loving
Back seat passenger injured when Mercury slams into Ridgewood utility pole
October 27,2014
Boyd A. Loving
Ridgewood NJ, A female passenger riding in the back seat of a 4-door Mercury sedan that crashed into a utility pole at the intersection of Linwood and Jeffer Avenues in Ridgewood on Monday afternoon was transported to The Valley Hospital by ambulance for treatment. The incident occurred just after 12:30 PM and closed Linwood Avenue in both directions from Paramus Road to Jeffer Avenue for 90 minutes. The Mercury was removed by a flatbed tow truck. The victims injuries were reported to be non-life threatening; the driver was not injured. Ridgewood PD, FD, and EMS responded. A PSE&G worker stabilized the utility pole after the vehicle was removed. There were no utility outages associated with the crash.
Photo credit:Boyd A. Loving
My brother took out a pole back in 1977. Cost him $300 back then.
Wonder what a new pole costs these days…?
Swerved to avoid a chipmunk?
When the town took part of my front yard to widen the street about 7 years ago, I asked why they couldn’t take any property from the houses across the street, which have much deeper lawns. Because it costs $10,000 to move a telephone pole and there are two of them, they said. I could be remembering that wrong, but it was an astronomical number. I suppose I could have slammed my car into the poles so they would have to be replaced anyway…didn’t think of that….