>Motor Vehicle Accident East Ridgewood and North Pleasant
Boyd Loving
(RIDGEWOOD- NJ) Several individuals were injured in a two (2) vehicle crash on Saturday evening at the intersection of East Ridgewood Avenue and North Pleasant Avenue. The most seriously injured victims were transported to Hackensack University Medical Center. One of the vehicles involved was a minivan, which was reportedly occupied by a family traveling with small children. Ridgewood Police Chief John Ward was on the scene assisting with a post-crash investigation.
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A Scion travelling at a high rate of speed was travelling west on Ridgewood Ave and lost control. It came across a lawn, hit some bushes and a fire box and then hit the mini-van which was waiting for the light on North Pleasant Ave. Both the van and the Scion wound up in the bushes of the house on the northwest corner of Ridgewood Ave. Nine people were injured; several went the hospital. Some needed to be cut out of the cars.
I live near that section of Ridgewood Ave and it needs better traffic enforcement. Cars fly down Ridgewood Ave at night. Obviously, the Scion was moving pretty damn fast to a stationary mini-van off the street move it probably 15′ and turn it sideways.
Once cars pass the lights at Pleasant or Paramus Road, it’s literally a speedway for them. I’ve seen cars tearing through here for years, particulary at night. There’s at least two or three fender benders a week heading east between Pleasant and the Duck Pond because people finaly get through town and speed but they forget that people actually turn into Walthery, Pershing and the Duck Pond.
Photos courtesy of Boyd Loving